Don’t expect to get one of these in your PC anytime soon though. The price range for this massive stand-alone monstrosity is priced from $800 to $1500, well within professional budgets but less than many workstation cards from Nvidia and AMD.
For the price of $1500, the Caustic R2500 from PowerVR (PS Vita, Dreamcast, most likely your smart phone) gives you two Ray-Tracing Units (RTUs), 16 gigglebytes of RAM, and a jurassic age manufactured process (90nm).
Kind of reminds me of the Brigade Engine.
No, it won’t run Crysis.
Source:
Ars Technica
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Wonder how this will end up affecting us gamers. Also, wtf nvidia and amd? :/
Eventually, GPUs will be able to replicate the performance of this Ray-tracing processing unit within your machine. So, there will most likely not be a need for a dedicated card (at least for consumers). But, replicating the performance gained from a RTU like this within a GPU may be a bit further down the road.
Either way, this is a pretty cool (albeit expensive) product.
the second video is actually a demonstration of the terrible user interface used in 3d modeling programs
Now that’s a big video card. Reminds me of the 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500. Anyone remember that monster back in the day?