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Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney predicts real-time photorealistic games will require roughly 5,000 teraflops, almost 150 times as much as today's fastest graphics cards (the Radeon HD 7970 offers 3.5 teraflops).
And while Samaritan's 2.5 teraflops (that's trillions of floating-point operations per second, laymen) is a far cry from the 10 megaflops that were needed to power the original Doom, we're still a good deal short of the 5,000 teraflops Sweeney calculates we'd need to process a fully realistic 3D scene in real time.
And even then, that would only handle the visual effects we currently understand how to model realistically—things like shadows, skin tones, smoke, and water. Plenty of the intangible elements of a scene, like realistic human movements, speech, and even personality, are way beyond our ability to model realistically just yet. "We don't have the algorithms, so even if we had a perfect computer today... we'd be relying not on more computing power, but on innovation in the state of the art algorithms," Sweeney said.
More info at ARS Technica.
Sweeney: Photorealistic games to require 5,000 teraflops - More news at DV Hardware
Apple Insider claims Apple's MacBook Pro lineup will get a brand new design that looks more like the MacBook Air, with ultra-thin unibody enclosures.
In particular, people familiar with Apple's roadmap say the Cupertino-based company currently plans to exit 2012 having completed a top-to-bottom revamp of its notebooks lineup that will see new MacBook Pros adopt the same design traits that have made its MacBook Airs an increasingly popular choice among mobile consumers.
This will include new, ultra-thin unibody enclosures that jettison yesteryear technologies like optical disk drives and traditional hard drives in favor of models with lightweight chassis that employ flash-memory based solid-state drives, instant-on capabilities, extended battery life, and rely on digital distribution for software and media.
"They're all going to look like MacBook Airs," one person familiar with the new MacBook Pro designs told AppleInsider. Meanwhile, existing MacBook Pro designs are expected to be phased out over the course of the year.
Apple preps radical MacBook Pro redesign - More news at DV Hardware
AMD released the Catalyst Application Profiles 12.1 CAP2, you can download it over here.This release of AMD Catalyst™ delivers support for the latest AMD CrossFireX™ profiles in a separate executable file ensuring users have access to the absolute latest set of profiles installed on their PC.
New profiles added to this release:
- Star Wars: The old republic : Improves CrossFire performance and resolves flickering seen on Map
- Unigine Tropics – Resolves flashing shadow reflections with CrossFire enabled
- Wargame: European Escalation: Improves CrossFire performance
AMD Catalyst Application Profiles 12.1 CAP 2 is out - More news at DV Hardware
Legit Reviews published leaked details about AMD's Radeon HD 7700 series, which is anticipated to be released next month. These new GPUs are made on a 28nm process and will fill in the sub-$200 segment.
Cape Verde Specs
Built on TSMC 28nm process,~1.5 billion transistors
10 Graphics Core Next Compute Units (CUs)
640 Stream processors
40 TMUs, 16 ROPs
128-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface
Radeon HD 7770
All CUs enabled, 640 Stream processors
1 GB GDDR5 memory
40 TMUs, 16 ROPs
1000 MHz Core clock-speed
1125 MHz (actual), 4500 MHz (effective) memory clock-speed
72 GB/s Memory bandwidth
1280 GFLOP/s Single precision floating-point performance
Typical board power: 80W
Radeon HD 7750
8 CUs enabled, 512 Stream processors
1 GB GDDR5 memory
32 TMUs, 16 ROPs
800 MHz Core clock-speed
1125 MHz (actual), 4500 MHz (effective) memory clock-speed
72 GB/s Memory bandwidth
819 GFLOP/s Single precision floating-point performance
Typical board power: 55W
AMD Radeon HD 7700 series details revealed - More news at DV Hardware
Microsoft revealed lots more details about the ARM edition of Windows 8, you can read it over here.Windows on ARM, or WOA, is a new member of the Windows family that builds on the foundation of Windows, has a very high degree of commonality and very significant shared code with Windows 8, and will be developed for, sold, and supported as a part of the largest computing ecosystem in the world. We created WOA to enable a new class of PC with unique capabilities and form factors, supported by a new set of partners that expand the ecosystem of which Windows is part.
WOA PCs are still under development and our collective goal is for PC makers to ship them the same time as PCs designed for Windows 8 on x86/64. These PCs will be built on unique and innovative hardware platforms provided by NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments, with a common Windows on ARM OS foundation—all running the same Windows OS binaries, a unique approach for the industry. PC manufacturers are hard at work on PCs designed from the ground up to be great and exclusively for WOA.
Microsoft reveals Windows 8 on ARM details - More news at DV Hardware
This month Microsoft has nine security bulletins that will plug a total of 21 vulnerabilities. Four bulletins are rated critical and five important.
More details at Microsoft.
Patch Tuesday addresses 21 vulnerabilities - More news at DV Hardware
Game Trailers published a video review of UFC Undisputed 3:
Get More: GameTrailers.com, UFC Undisputed 3 - Review, PC Games, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
UFC Undisputed 3 video review - More news at DV Hardware
For the past few years VMware has been improving the graphics
acceleration support that is available via their virtualization
platform. VMware -- through their 2008 acquisition of Tungsten Graphics
-- has effectively re-written their graphics driver for their virtual
"SVGA II" GPU to take advantage of the Gallium3D driver architecture, a
new acceleration architecture, and many other improvements. This work
has finally come together and is now working rather nicely.
Read more at Phoronix.
VMware's Virtual GPU Driver Is Running Fast @ Phoronix - More news at DV Hardware
With the help of some mods and console commands, Tyrannicon created The Great Battle of Skyrim. This epic battle features 500 Draugr, 200 skeletons, 500 Dwemer Warriors and a dragon. Hopefully, someone will turn this idea into a mod.
LOTR-style epic battle in Skyrim (video) - More news at DV Hardware
A leaked Intel roadmap reveals Intel's Haswell architecture is slated for March-April 2013:
According to the conventional idea of Intel's tick-tock CPU development strategy, it will be built on the 22 nm fab process, which will have gained some maturity by then. Intel follows a "tick-tock" product development model. Every year, Intel's product lineup sees either of the two. A "tock" brings in a new x86 architecture, a "tick" miniaturizes it to a newer silicon fabrication process. Earlier reports indicated that Haswell Core processors will be based on a newer socket, the LGA1150, and hence it will not be compatible with LGA1155 platforms.
Source: TPU
Intel Haswell expected in March-April 2013 - More news at DV Hardware
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