by markag » Mon Apr 18, 2011 5:29 pm
The way nvidia has positioned themselves with the Fermi graphics cards shows that they expect the graphics cards to be doing more processing in the future. You already see how video encoding has moved from the CPU to the GPU, and that has really improved performance. Why can't some of these processing threads be moved off CPU. And now with the sandy bridge intel chips, on-chip PCI Express controller streamlines the connection between graphics and CPU. Granted, not everyone runs the latest intel and nvidia cards, but the technology is there waiting to be used. Why not take advantage of it.
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