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Maxwell on graphic cards...

Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:56 pm
by piroshki
Hi all,

I'm curious to know if someone at NextLimit is investigating the possibility of using the power behind graphics card... When I see something like this:

http://www.electronista.com/articles/09 ... .4800.mac/

and read about 192 cores... well, that makes me think our images could appear quite a bit faster... Also this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL

Thoughts?

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 2:34 pm
by def4d
It has been discussed before on several threads, and the answer is no :(

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:28 am
by Richard
Hmmm! But don't you wish! I've heard rumour that Fry is heading down that path - though from what else I've read on it one never knows!

Re: Maxwell on graphic cards...

Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 3:10 pm
by def4d
I'm with everything that could speed up our works, for sure!

Re:

Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 6:13 pm
by numerobis
Richard wrote:Hmmm! But don't you wish! I've heard rumour that Fry is heading down that path - though from what else I've read on it one never knows!
no, they have announced a realtime engine (RandomControl), but not GPU for rendering...