Friday, 30 April 2010

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EVGA, KIngpIn and Shamino Break World Records with GTX 480

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 10:22 AM PDT

It's official! EVGA along with KIngpIn and Shamino crushed all the top scores on the Futuremark 3DMark Vantage Hall of Fame with 4 EVGA GTX 480 GPUs. They validated GTX 480 as the fastest GPU in the world...feels good. Feels real good.

Check out video of the guys' work below and see more pictures in the EVGA forums, here.

Supersonic Sled Demo - Can You Beat the World Record?

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 04:59 PM PDT

I have been watching a lot of action in the forums and am seeing fans starting to post results on their best runs using our new demo for GTX 480 – Supersonic Sled. You can download it here.

The demo uses tessellation, PhysX and is, overall, just a cool game. After you download and play the demo, you have a chance to show up on the leaderboard where we're posting the top run scores automatically. Check out the best times here.

While I haven't posted it on the current scores site, as of today I am the world record time holder for best sled time - somewhere around 15 seconds! Since you could say I have a bit of an inside advantage I put together a video to show everyone the true secrets of Supersonic Sled.  Think you have what it takes to beat me?

Life After Moore's Law

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 02:41 PM PDT

Forty-five years ago this month, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would double each year (later revised to every 18 months). This laid the groundwork for another prediction: that doubling the number of transistors would also double the performance of CPUs every 18 months.

This bold prediction, known as Moore's Law, long held true. But we have reached the limit of what is possible with one or more traditional CPUs. The computing industry – and everyone who relies on it for continued improvements in productivity – needs to take the leap into parallel processing.

Forbes.com has published a piece I've written about this, describing how the CPU scaling predicted by Moore's Law is now dead. Give it a read here, and feel free to post comments in this blog.
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