IF YOU ARE AMD, what do you do to counter Intel's Penryn launch last Monday? Well, you get a satellite truck, a CTO, and a rooftop in NYC, and get the word out to the unwashed press.
AMD did just that, and the pitch was about 'game supercomputing'. Basically if you take the Spider platform, a 790 mobo, a Phenom of one flavour or other, and four RV670 GPUs, you can run the art assets from the original Spiderman movie in real time. All this for under $2000, or it will be under $2000 when it officially comes out in a week.
You almost assuredly have seen the type of video blurbs in question, five-minute Q&A sessions on the local news talking about something by someone important, but you probably have never seen how they are actually done. There is a lot of work and sweating to make that five-minute clip happen.
*img405.imageshack.us/img405/5858/amdsatellitetruckko1.jpg
*www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/14/day-roof-phil-hester AMD tries to jam Intel's signal
AMD did just that, and the pitch was about 'game supercomputing'. Basically if you take the Spider platform, a 790 mobo, a Phenom of one flavour or other, and four RV670 GPUs, you can run the art assets from the original Spiderman movie in real time. All this for under $2000, or it will be under $2000 when it officially comes out in a week.
You almost assuredly have seen the type of video blurbs in question, five-minute Q&A sessions on the local news talking about something by someone important, but you probably have never seen how they are actually done. There is a lot of work and sweating to make that five-minute clip happen.
*img405.imageshack.us/img405/5858/amdsatellitetruckko1.jpg
*www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/14/day-roof-phil-hester AMD tries to jam Intel's signal
