Jun

18

Cinematic 2.0 graphic chips

Filed Under GPU and Gaming, Video Gallery 

Imagine the ability to look around the environments in a sci-fi movie, put yourself in the driver’s seat in a race scene, use your PC to simulate extremely complicated protein folding to help find a cure for debilitating diseases, produce movie-grade blockbuster animation films like “Finding Nemo” and “Kung Fu Panda” in your own PC at home. Yes, now these dreams are not too distant. The technology for this is happening. The top graphic chip makers are about to launch products with the so-called cinematic 2.0 capability that offers awesome teraflop computing power and real-to-life cinematic digital effects.

First, AMD is about to launch the world’s highest performing graphics processor, codenamed RV770, this summer (Ref). The chip has teraflop computing power that is more powerful than any video game console known today. It is claimed to produce amazing cinematic 2.0 visual effects. Second, Nvidia has announced a new family of GeForce GTX 200 graphics processors that are capable of delivering fifty percent more gaming performance over its previous GeForce 8800 Ultra GPU through a whopping 240 enhanced processor cores that can generate resolutions as high as 2560 x 1600 (Ref). Being a embarrassing number 3 in discrete graphics chip market, Intel announced that it is going to fundamentally change its graphic architecture from raster-graphics based to ray-tracing based design which will greatly boost the graphics experience in the future (Ref). Yes, the era of virtual reality is coming soon.

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