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Abdul Raauf
Surprisingly enough, AMD is not doing that well these days, although ATI is starting to catch up on NVIDIA. CPUs don’t seem to represent AMD’s ace in the sleeve for the moment and that’s why the company is concentrating more on the GPU sector. Techtree.com managed to interview Raja Koduri, worldwide CTO (Products Group) at AMD, who primarily spoke about ATI’s upcoming products.
Koduri mentioned that "AMD has already built a computer that has four 4870X2s in it. So it has eight GPUs; drivers will not be supporting eight GPUs at this point of time." That sounds a bit CUDA-like to me. After all, ATI is preparing to bring CUDA support for their latest GPUs and maybe AMD has finally approved this move. I don’t think gamers, not even the hardcore ones, will want to buy four 4870X2 cards when the drivers are ready. However, we could be considering some cheaper setups like four 4850 or 4870 cards.
Fudzilla informs that Koduri was asked at some point about PCI Express bandwidth limitations on motherboards with dual x8 slots and if there was enough bandwidth for the latest generation of cards. The AMD representative replied:"Yes, because our drivers and the games, at least the last generation games, they've been optimized to avoid traffic between GPUs. But my prediction is that moving forward it will be important that there's more bandwidth between GPUs." So that’s why an important number of games tend to scale poorly on CrossFire setups.
Another important aspect presented by Koduri is AMD’s intention to bring midrange and possibly high-end graphics acceleration to the upcoming Fusion CPU/GPU hybrid units. This might point to the fact that the era of discrete graphics cards is nearing its final days for ATI, which could be totally fusing with AMD in this case.
Koduri mentioned that "AMD has already built a computer that has four 4870X2s in it. So it has eight GPUs; drivers will not be supporting eight GPUs at this point of time." That sounds a bit CUDA-like to me. After all, ATI is preparing to bring CUDA support for their latest GPUs and maybe AMD has finally approved this move. I don’t think gamers, not even the hardcore ones, will want to buy four 4870X2 cards when the drivers are ready. However, we could be considering some cheaper setups like four 4850 or 4870 cards.
Fudzilla informs that Koduri was asked at some point about PCI Express bandwidth limitations on motherboards with dual x8 slots and if there was enough bandwidth for the latest generation of cards. The AMD representative replied:"Yes, because our drivers and the games, at least the last generation games, they've been optimized to avoid traffic between GPUs. But my prediction is that moving forward it will be important that there's more bandwidth between GPUs." So that’s why an important number of games tend to scale poorly on CrossFire setups.
Another important aspect presented by Koduri is AMD’s intention to bring midrange and possibly high-end graphics acceleration to the upcoming Fusion CPU/GPU hybrid units. This might point to the fact that the era of discrete graphics cards is nearing its final days for ATI, which could be totally fusing with AMD in this case.
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