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AMD arrives on the GPGPU scene with ATI Stream
AMD arrives on the GPGPU scene with ATI Stream
Introduction GPGPU is something of a buzz term in the graphics market today. The acronym, which stands for general-purpose computing on graphics processing units, is used to indicate that a traditional GPU can do a whole lot more than its traditional task; pushing out playable frame rates in all ...
Roadmap Indicates CUDA 3.0 in Q4 2009
Roadmap Indicates CUDA 3.0 in Q4 2009
en.expreview.com — 2 Responses to “Roadmap Indicates CUDA 3.0 in Q4 2009” Roco Says: December 11th, 2008 at 5:53... pm “C language environment for GPU at present,” WTF how about Brook+?? Sue Says: December 11th, 2008 at 6:56 pm Please note “Runtime”. We’re just discussing ... (more) Roadmap Indicates CUDA 3.0 in Q4 2009
GPU Transcoding Throwdown: Elemental's Badaboom vs. AMD's Avivo Video Converter
anandtech.com — Two applications, both running parts of their code on the GPU are now available for end users... to transcode video. As of Catalyst 8.12, all AMD Radeon HD 4800 and 4600 owners get access to a free GPU accelerated video transcoder designed to compete ... (more) GPU Transcoding Throwdown: Elemental's Badaboom vs. ...
NVIDIA Adds OpenCL to Its Industry Leading GPU Computing Toolkit
NVIDIA Adds OpenCL to Its Industry Leading GPU Computing Toolkit
news.prnewswire.com — SINGAPORE , Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SIGGRAPH ASIA 2008 -- NVIDIA Corporation today announced its full support... for the newly released OpenCL 1.0 specification from the Khronos Group. OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a new compute API that ... (more) NVIDIA Adds OpenCL to Its Industry Leading GPU Computing ...
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ATI's 8.12 Catalyst a Really Big Deal
TheTechLounge - Recent News and Articles — [image] AMD arrives on the GPGPU scene with ATI Stream @ Hexus.net The green team (NVIDIA, that is), has been bellowing the importance of GPGPU throughout the year, and we recently concluded that its CUDA and PhsyX technologies could finally be coming to fruition. Despite the underlying promise of its GPGPU ambitions, however, NVIDIA has somewhat struggled to get large quantities of programmers to adopt its CUDA development tools... But what about the read team? AMD has been sitting it out for the best part of the year, but it's arriving on the GPGPU scene today with v8.12 of ...

GPU-accelerated video-encoding. Who is better, AMD or NVIDIA?
HEXUS.net : News — ... , the hardware capability has been there to offload many more general-purpose computing (GPGPU) tasks than was possible with DirectX 9. We ve looked at one such general-purpose task, video-encoding, back in December 2008, where we tested AMD ...

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thetechlounge.com 12/10/2008 — AMD arrives on the GPGPU scene with ATI Stream @ Hexus.net "The green team (NVIDIA, that is), has been bellowing the importance of GPGPU throughout the year, and we recently concluded that its CUDA and PhsyX technologies could finally be coming to ...
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