   Anyone try Nvidia GPU AI?
  For anyone that's used it: Pros/Cons?GPU AI Video of it in action:GPU AI video It really seems like Nvidia is on their way to making their own game engine.   
  Nvidia specific.. not intrested... call me when someone impliments it with DX's compute shaders and/or OpenCL.   ;  I think it does use computer shaders, doesn't it?   ;  But I bet it only runs on nVidias cards, and not on ATIs.   ;  I'm not interested, not because it is an nVidia-only technology (heck, I wouldn't shed a tear is ATi shut down), but I'm really just not impressed.   ;  Also... I'm typically render-bound.  Moving more things to the GPU doesn't seem like it will help my framerate-me   ;  I don't really see the point. It's a decent technique, and if you need really computation-heavy simulation, it might come in handy, but... for general game deployment, it's usually easier to abuse extra CPU cores than it is to load balance GPGPU work and actual rendering. For modern games that demand high-end graphics especially, there just isn't that much idle GPU time to play with.CPU cores, on the other hand, seem to be woefully underused on the PC platform - but that's likely just an issue of market penetration, i.e. no sense writing tech that needs quad-core CPUs when quad-core is such a small fraction of the market at the moment.   ;  It'll make more sense when we are all sporting "Fusion" CPUs (aka multiple core CPUs with a GPU bolted on) along with normal graphics card, however at that point you'd want to do things like this with DX's compute or OpenCL as the only "Fusion gpu" chips will be AMD or Intel based as NV don't have an x86/x64 license so will be out in the cold.@maspeirYou do realise that if AMD/ATI went away you'd be gouged more than you already are being for NV GPUs? It's only AMD's recent attack at a decent price point with low power which is keeping NV 'honest' when it comes to pricing. Remember, not too long ago we were nearly look at graphics cards costing close to a $1,000!   ;Quote:Original post by phantom@maspeirYou do realise that if AMD/ATI went away you'd be gouged more than you already are being for NV GPUs? It's only AMD's recent attack at a decent price point with low power which is keeping NV 'honest' when it comes to pricing. Remember, not too long ago we were nearly look at graphics cards costing close to a $1,000!I understand that. I just have no love for AMD/ATi. Keeping nVidia's prices in check is the only use I have for them. But enough about that. This thread isn't about ATi vs. nVidia. That debate isn't even worth getting into.   ;  I can't feed my GPU with more stuff, too. While my GPU is busy, the CPU gets bored in my engine. :-/ I know, not good, but I have plenty of CPU time left (And one whole core) to do things like running physics, doing Terrain destruction, loading, etc, etc. But my (Very tiny and old nv8400) GPU is happy with it's work for now.I can't undestand why anyone thinks "Doing everything on the GPU is better better better!" Could someone who knows more about this give me a advise?   