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Great selection, great article. The only one I find missing would be the GPU of Nvidia's 8800 graphics card, I belive it was the first GPU that could be used fo
by bunnycorn 8y ago
Great selection, great article. The only one I find missing would be the GPU of Nvidia's 8800 graphics card, I belive it was the first GPU that could be used for GPGPU. (Correct me if I'm wrong).
- opencl 8y agoSort of. The Xenos GPU in the Xbox 360 was the first with a unified shader architecture but the 8800 was indeed the first one for PC. If you want to get a little more pedantic, GPGPU has been around in some form as long as programmable shaders have by (ab)using graphics APIs. But unified shaders made it a lot more flexible/useful/less hacky and were definitely the start of modern GPGPU efforts.
- agumonkey 8y agoReminds me that Evans & Sutherland, before framebuffer were cheap enough, programmed their GUIs fully based on streamed / laziness.