So lately i was pondering about the steam box, source 2, and the upcoming generation of hardware.
Now, i was thinking the steam box released with a HL3 on source 2 would be a pretty good sale, now, common sense would mean the Steambox would have to perform great on the launch game, but it would need to compete with consoles. now, what i was wondering is since it would need to be cheap, would it be possible for most of the game engine to use a high end gpu for processing and graphics? like if they had a 9870/8870/770 coupled with a low end, cheap cpu. Ok, it may be a stupid idea, but is is possible?
TL;DR Game engines using a GPU for CPU tasks. possible?
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Possible, yes, but very difficult to code for and wouldn't work that well due to PCI-e bandwidth limitations.
The steambox will have similar hardware to the PS4, almost certainly.
from what i understand from the wikipedia page, if the cards use Pci-e 3.0 to the fullest extent, that's 31.51 GB/s. Is that seriously to slow for processing?
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from what i understand from the wikipedia page, if the cards use Pci-e 3.0 to the fullest extent, that's 31.51 GB/s. Is that seriously to slow for processing?
It's not about bandwidth amount, but bandwidth latency and overall performance.
You can't cure a traffic jam by making the road wider, if there is still only 1 lane.
It's not about bandwidth amount, but bandwidth latency and overall performance.
You can't cure a traffic jam by making the road wider, if there is still only 1 lane.
hate to ask this, but Latency between what? if the cpu doesn't render the game, and more or less idles and pulls data from a storage medium to the graphics card's memory, where it moves around on the card fully rendering the graphics and physics then would there be no latency?
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hate to ask this, but Latency between what? if the cpu doesn't render the game, and more or less idles and pulls data from a storage medium to the graphics card's memory, where it moves around on the card fully rendering the graphics and physics then would there be no latency?
This is where it gets too complex for me to explain.
But even then, GPUs are not powerful enough for the game AND graphics at once.
Eeeehhh not really. I was talking with Xaanos about this a while back, about the usage of GPGPU in games. Now, GPUs are capable of computing physics effects, a task normally done by the CPU, but that's nowhere near the extent that the CPU does. For example, GPUs are almost completely unable to do dynamic AI for various reasons. Hugely sacrificing CPU power for GPU power is not really the way to go.
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Now, i was thinking the steam box released with a HL3 on source 2 would be a pretty good sale, now, common sense would mean the Steambox would have to perform great on the launch game, but it would need to compete with consoles. now, what i was wondering is since it would need to be cheap, would it be possible for most of the game engine to use a high end gpu for processing and graphics? like if they had a 9870/8870/770 coupled with a low end, cheap cpu. Ok, it may be a stupid idea, but is is possible?
TL;DR Game engines using a GPU for CPU tasks. possible?
if someone suggests Alienware or Cyberpower, wait for a custom-built list from someone who knows their stuff. Meh Rig
The steambox will have similar hardware to the PS4, almost certainly.
from what i understand from the wikipedia page, if the cards use Pci-e 3.0 to the fullest extent, that's 31.51 GB/s. Is that seriously to slow for processing?
if someone suggests Alienware or Cyberpower, wait for a custom-built list from someone who knows their stuff. Meh Rig
You can't cure a traffic jam by making the road wider, if there is still only 1 lane.
hate to ask this, but Latency between what? if the cpu doesn't render the game, and more or less idles and pulls data from a storage medium to the graphics card's memory, where it moves around on the card fully rendering the graphics and physics then would there be no latency?
if someone suggests Alienware or Cyberpower, wait for a custom-built list from someone who knows their stuff. Meh Rig
But even then, GPUs are not powerful enough for the game AND graphics at once.
if someone suggests Alienware or Cyberpower, wait for a custom-built list from someone who knows their stuff. Meh Rig