by Bob Cramblitt Views of SPEC/GWPG members. Every day in their engineering jobs with leading OEMs and graphics card manufacturers, the representatives of the SPEC Graphics and Workstation Performance Group (SPEC/GWPG) assess the latest technologies designed to make their products run professional applications faster and more efficiently. In their role with … [Read more...] about A 5-year vision for workstation graphics performance
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Nebula benchmarks the ray tracing competitors
Knowing how you stand up to the competition is critical. Last December, we told you about ray tracing startup, Nebula, in Montreal and the founder, Yann Clotioloman Yéo. The company has developed a physically based, unbiased stand-alone renderer with realtime DirectX 12 preview written in C++. It runs on Windows 10 (64-bit) and requires SSE4 to run. The program uses AMD … [Read more...] about Nebula benchmarks the ray tracing competitors
Nvidia’s Q3 FY20 results
$3.01 billion in sales, $899 million profit, up 61% from last quarter. Nvidia reported revenue from all platforms up for the quarter and beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company’s GPU business revenue was $2.6 billion, up 22% from last quarter, but down 8% from last year. The quarter was the fourth consecutive decline in year-over-year sales. “Our gaming business and … [Read more...] about Nvidia’s Q3 FY20 results
Everybody dance now: Intel GPU turned on
The Intel engine has started to purr. The company turned in a great quarter, and now CEO Bob Swan tells investors the Intel Xe DG1 GPU has been powered on in the lab. Intel released their third-quarter results (see Intel Q3 2019 results) and reported record results. In the analyst call, Intel’s CEO Bob Swan said the company is on target to return to a schedule of major … [Read more...] about Everybody dance now: Intel GPU turned on
New development in AI hardware and software is transforming the market
Three years ago, we had maybe six or less AI accelerators, today there’s over two dozen, and more are coming. One of the first commercially available AI training accelerators was the GPU, and the undisputed leader of that segment was Nvidia. Nvidia was already preeminent in machine learning (ML) and deep-learning (DL) applications and adding neural net acceleration was a … [Read more...] about New development in AI hardware and software is transforming the market