{"id":1700,"date":"2013-10-19T18:07:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T18:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2013-10-19T18:07:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T18:07:05","slug":"is-this-the-end-of-the-graphic-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2013\/10\/is-this-the-end-of-the-graphic-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the end of the graphic race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-agXIAHRP22E\/UmLHzMRt9EI\/AAAAAAAABNQ\/bw1EnH4so6A\/s640\/Kd366oa.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Big news in the world of hardware and graphics.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia just announced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/10\/18\/nvidia-montreal-2013-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">streaming system<\/a> to play on your TV with heavy graphic computation being done in your office room or basement on loud computers.<\/p>\n<p>AMD announced a couple of weeks ago <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/show\/7431\/amd-blog-post-the-four-core-principles-of-amds-mantle\" target=\"_blank\">Mantle<\/a>, a low level API for its graphic cards.<\/p>\n<p>Both technology are working on current gen. For the very first time since GPUs exist, <strong>the<\/strong> <strong>new graphic generation is not based on completely new hardware but on software features and enhancements<\/strong>. It was already the case for the past few years but now manufacturers just don\u2019t hide it anymore.<\/p>\n<p>It makes sense now that each of these marvel of technology are in the billion transistors count (7.08 billion-transistor chip for the very last AMD card, it is mind-blowing). Moore\u2019s law is so slowing down (14nm is a bitch, ask <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/10\/15\/intel-delays-broadwell-chips-to-early-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">Intel about yield<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>AMD and Nvidia have to sell more cards that are today absolutely under-used or way too expensive. Even PC enthusiasts don\u2019t upgrade anymore. No one wants to change to Intel\u2019s Haswell as well. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a massive industry shift and I think everyone is going to benefit: users with better app performances and still a wide range of choice, AMD and Nvidia don\u2019t have to rush products out anymore and developers get more market stability than ever.<\/p>\n<p>I sure hope it will push game developers to spend more time on things like AUDIO and INPUT. \u2018bout time. <\/p>\n<p>Also manufacturers, slow down on 4K BS. I have yet to see a game programmer happy about 4K textures and the shit storm that will come with managing that asset size just to please a couple of rich dudes out there is not something they\u2019re looking forward to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big news in the world of hardware and graphics. Nvidia just announced a streaming system to play on your TV with heavy graphic computation being done in your office room or basement on loud computers. AMD announced a couple of weeks ago Mantle, a low level API for its graphic cards. Both technology are working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1701,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions\/1701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}