ATI announces HyperMemory tech

18 Sep, 2004 at 2:32am ET Article published in Tech

ATI has announced HyperMemory Tech which along with PCIe allows System memory to be used by the Graphics CPU.

The real story here, at least at the high end, is one that we discussed with ATI technology gurus months ago. Game programmers will be starting to use PCIe as a way to get the graphics to do calculations the CPU is too busy to do. GPUs will be able to use idle time to calculate things like physics operations, interacting with both the CPU and the main memory, and resulting in a lift of load off the CPU.

Source: The Inquirer

Comments

18 Sep 2004 ~ 9:38pm Medlock Cool! Think we can make video cards fold?
19 Sep 2004 ~ 2:18pm Garg I'd be a little worried about running a GPU at full-load 24/7. It'd probably need upgraded cooling.
20 Sep 2004 ~ 9:48am GHoosdum Yeah, but it's still a damn cool idea.
20 Sep 2004 ~ 1:55pm edcentric One step closer to gpu folding.