AMD Next-Gen GPU Runs Crysis on iPhone

[Distinct]

Why is it a good idea???? Seriously? I'm surprised you guys asked that question at the end of the article. CLOUD computing opens up the market to EVERYONE in every single market in the world, just about! Server farms are right around the corner!

What happened here is cloud computing basically, with a super high tech connection. This is really the next step PC gaming needs to take to attract casual consumers to the market that can't maintain a PC or want to. And it makes sense for AMD to want this, imagine all the servers running these games and consumers paying for the service to play these games with a very cheap PC, whether it be a Laptop / Netbook / or old hunk of junk. Well... those servers that are hosting the cloud computing will HAVE to have many many GPUs!

It all makes perfect sense, and I think, and often hope that this is the future, although; there are many obstacles facing cloud computing, but with time and investments this will be a worthwhile technology that will be used for many generations!

 

[nforce4max]

[citation][nom]Distinct[/nom]Why is it a good idea???? Seriously? I'm surprised you guys asked that question at the end of the article. CLOUD computing opens up the market to EVERYONE in every single market in the world, just about! Server farms are right around the corner!What happened here is cloud computing basically, with a super high tech connection. This is really the next step PC gaming needs to take to attract casual consumers to the market that can't maintain a PC or want to. And it makes sense for AMD to want this, imagine all the servers running these games and consumers paying for the service to play these games with a very cheap PC, whether it be a Laptop / Netbook / or old hunk of junk. Well... those servers that are hosting the cloud computing will HAVE to have many many GPUs!It all makes perfect sense, and I think, and often hope that this is the future, although; there are many obstacles facing cloud computing, but with time and investments this will be a worthwhile technology that will be used for many generations![/citation]

Year the idea of gaming on a junkbook or with a crappy junktop running crysis or gta iv is just alluring. In the end such a service will be popular so long ISPs don't continue to be a issue.

 

[chunkymonster]

HA! Now I remember why I frequent this site. The geek banter and product bashing always cracks me up. Certainly a number of interesting opinions.

So here's mine...as a gadget, I dig the iPhone but at the end of the day it's still a cell phone. Personally I have no need for that type of cell phone. The technology of the iPhone (as well as pda's, smart phones, web capable media devices) is bad-ass solely because they are pushing the limits of the existing communications infrastructure and ultimately an investment back into that infrastructure. Can we way "stimulus".

Cheers to AMD! Good promotion. Although, the article only states that Crysis was rendered by their next gen gpu. But what it doesn't say is how many of those gpu's were needed to have 2.5 teraFlops of floating point number crunching goodness. Anybody's guess?

 

[pender21]

I thought it was rendering it on the GPU.

Yesterday's news. For anyone in the US subscribe to the onlive beta
http://www.onlive.com/

 

[ViPr]

so now there are 3 companies doing cloud gaming? OTOY, Gaikai, and Onlive.

 

[ElectroGoofy]

Nice! They say it was smooth gameplay... but that was with the servers right there... I wonder how it would perform over the regular internet and what the minimum internet speed would be to use it?

 

[asgallant]

Someone awhile back asked why AMD would do this - it's rather simple. Imagine a server farm with 100 units, each decked out with two top line GPU's in crossfire. The cards need to be reliable, with top notch service and support, which means workstation-class hardware. Also, given that the server farm is streaming games (presumably at high-res with all the bells and whistles - why else would anyone buy into such a service?) the GPU's need to be at the bleeding edge of technology. Bleeding edge, workstation-class hardware would sell for a huge premium, somewhere between $1k-$2k per card, which works out to $200k-$400k for one customer. Server farms would have to upgrade with every generation or lose customers to their competitors who are upgrading, so this means $200-$400k per customer (of this size) every 18 months or so. There is a crapload of money to be made here.

 

[hemelskonijn]

nachowarrior:

When will you grow up move out of your moms basement and stop writing like a moron?
Really dude every time when i see a reply written by you i stop reading at the first \/ i encounter ... its moronic and childish if you want to be taken seriously you should drop that shit and maybe i will ever finish reading something you write.

 

[jazlizard]

But can it play Crys.. oh I see what you did there.

 

[Guest]

First of all, I wish this article (and others here, similarly) would explain uncommon acronyms like OTOY.

Second, I don't exactly see what this has to do with the new GPU. Couldn't any regular GPU do the same thing in this scenario?

 

[danish_2828]

I see this as a great way to rent PC games. And if I end up liking a pc game I can go ahead and purchase it from Steam or D2D. I feel the best thing this company could do is partner up or create their own D2D or Steam like game download service as well. More profit for them. Cause I know there are some of us that just love being able to play a game at full resolution on our 24in monitors and I just don't see this happening with this type of service, at least not right now. At best it will probably be rendered at 720p resololutions.

 

[Guest]

Until we can take our iPhones out into the wilderness with no 3G, Wireless, or even 'E' service and play the game, I don't consider this to be Crysis "running" on an iPhone.

 

[Guest]

I want some AMD shares!

 

[littlec]

I agree with dreamphantom. This kind of technology would only be optimal for casual gamers and MMORPG addicts who already pay to play. For everyone else just upgrade once every 2 years like you should be doing anyways.

 

[chunkymonster]

I agree with dreamphantom. This kind of technology would only be optimal for casual gamers and MMORPG addicts who already pay to play. For everyone else just upgrade once every 2 years like you should be doing anyways.

The third thread revived from the dead that I've seen today...