Weekly Forum Follies
Friday 10th August 2007, 02:02:00 PM, written by Rys
Yes, yes, we know we started this feature ages ago and it had a
successful run of, wait for it, one, but it's back! Weekly Forum
Follies is the Friday afternoon bit of Beyond3D where we round up
what's happened on the forums in the last 7 days. The last couple of hundred days in this case, but we digress.
First up is our pair of brand new threads on the upcoming GPU architectures from AMD and NVIDIA. In the AMD R7 thread, things have made a reasonable start with folks wondering about dual chip for R700, TSMC's process roadmap into 45 and 40nm coming in to play, with some wondering if it's just an evolution of what R6 brought to the table architecturally. A bunch of the usual forum suspects drive things there just now, but there's room for everyone to play.
The NVIDIA G9x thread is doing well, too, with the current angle of attack being what, if any, fixed function units might be reasonable candidates for moving to the shader core. Triangle setup, the AA downfilter and the blender were proposed, with yours truly, Arun and Jawed kicking the tires there initially. Double precision support has been discussed too, and it's a feature that NVIDIA are relying on for certain things.....
Less than a week old, Hardknock's thread from Quakecon, where John Carmack discusses development of id Tech 5 on PC and console hardware, has the Console Forum's knickers in a right old knot. John's got this uncanny knack of knowing just what to say to polarise technical communities, and his Quakecon keynote was no exception. The general flow of the thread has been developer vs PS3 enthusiast, with a good chunk of misinterpretation, personal mud slinging and vocal grief, which are just the things the CF loves to feed from sometimes!
If SIGGRAPH is your thing (it's been on this last week in San Diego for those living under stones) then the News Forum covers most of the stories we reported on coming out of the conference halls, show floor and BoF sessions over the last few days. Some of the threads could use a kick, so jump in if there's something you like. AMD announced new R6-based FireGL's, the OpenGL ARB announced OpenGL 3 and NVIDIA, ImgTec, Microsoft, and some big name ISVs all feature in our news coverage.
Last but not least, Tim fell off his bike, Humus let us know he's leaving AMD to join Avalanche back in his native Sweden, the F1 thread is still going strong and G can't wait for his T61p to show up!
If you're new to the forums, it all starts here.
First up is our pair of brand new threads on the upcoming GPU architectures from AMD and NVIDIA. In the AMD R7 thread, things have made a reasonable start with folks wondering about dual chip for R700, TSMC's process roadmap into 45 and 40nm coming in to play, with some wondering if it's just an evolution of what R6 brought to the table architecturally. A bunch of the usual forum suspects drive things there just now, but there's room for everyone to play.
The NVIDIA G9x thread is doing well, too, with the current angle of attack being what, if any, fixed function units might be reasonable candidates for moving to the shader core. Triangle setup, the AA downfilter and the blender were proposed, with yours truly, Arun and Jawed kicking the tires there initially. Double precision support has been discussed too, and it's a feature that NVIDIA are relying on for certain things.....
Less than a week old, Hardknock's thread from Quakecon, where John Carmack discusses development of id Tech 5 on PC and console hardware, has the Console Forum's knickers in a right old knot. John's got this uncanny knack of knowing just what to say to polarise technical communities, and his Quakecon keynote was no exception. The general flow of the thread has been developer vs PS3 enthusiast, with a good chunk of misinterpretation, personal mud slinging and vocal grief, which are just the things the CF loves to feed from sometimes!
If SIGGRAPH is your thing (it's been on this last week in San Diego for those living under stones) then the News Forum covers most of the stories we reported on coming out of the conference halls, show floor and BoF sessions over the last few days. Some of the threads could use a kick, so jump in if there's something you like. AMD announced new R6-based FireGL's, the OpenGL ARB announced OpenGL 3 and NVIDIA, ImgTec, Microsoft, and some big name ISVs all feature in our news coverage.
Last but not least, Tim fell off his bike, Humus let us know he's leaving AMD to join Avalanche back in his native Sweden, the F1 thread is still going strong and G can't wait for his T61p to show up!
If you're new to the forums, it all starts here.
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