Posts Tagged GPU

Alan Dang at Tom’s Hardware has posted an article prognosticating what the next decade holds for GPUs. Even if you don’t usually find pundit predictions useful, Alan’s is worth the read. Alan has been there since the beginning and he takes his readers through the history, the motivating economics toward a coherent vision of the GPU’s future. The article compares and contrasts the product mixes, technology and strategies of the three existing competitors: Nvidia, AMD and Intel.

Despite an emphasis toward gaming and video — the primary market and impetus for technology — the high performance computing enthusiast should take away a better understanding the technology and what hardware and software toys are on the horizon.