News Game played on a 3D dental scanner with an old Intel CPU and AMD GPU — up to 700 FPS on Counter-Strike: Source

[Admin]

A 3D dental scanner gets tested for gaming, to surprisingly strong results.

Game played on a 3D dental scanner with an old Intel CPU and AMD GPU — up to 700 FPS on Counter-Strike: Source : Read more

 

[SocDriver]

I work at a company that makes dental lab equipment and some of our newer scanners are rocking i9-14700 and RTX 4070s. We have even fired IT guys that have taken some of the dental lab computers home for "testing" and we find out they just wanted a gaming machine.

 

[ezst036]

Most computers these days are ridiculously overkill.

 

[evdjj3j]

Those are old specifications—the CPU and platform are from 2014, just after DDR4 was initially adopted—but they were still surprisingly adequate for gaming until around the PS4 era.


What does that even mean? The PS4 was released in 2013 a year before this CPU.

 

[King_V]

I work at a company that makes dental lab equipment and some of our newer scanners are rocking i9-14700 and RTX 4070s. We have even fired IT guys that have taken some of the dental lab computers home for "testing" and we find out they just wanted a gaming machine.

Yikes!! Exactly how much processing and GPU power do dental scanners actually need?

 

[usertests]

Yikes!! Exactly how much processing and GPU power do dental scanners actually need?

Enough to render your tooth decay in 16K resolution.

 

[Cyber1999]

"While we don't know what exact GPU is used within this 3D dental scanner, the system information at least tells us it's an AMD Radeon R9 200 series GPU. Perhaps a Radeon R9 270X, 280X, or 290X?"

The screenshot of CPU-Z indicates that the GPU is a “Tonga" model and has 2GB of RAM. Which makes it a variant of the "Radeon R9 285". The R9 270/280/290 would be "Curacao", "Tahiti" or "Hawaii".

 

[jlake3]

"While we don't know what exact GPU is used within this 3D dental scanner, the system information at least tells us it's an AMD Radeon R9 200 series GPU. Perhaps a Radeon R9 270X, 280X, or 290X?"

The screenshot of CPU-Z indicates that the GPU is a “Tonga" model and has 2GB of RAM. Which makes it a variant of the "Radeon R9 285". The R9 270/280/290 would be "Curacao", "Tahiti" or "Hawaii".

THIS. A search of the GPU-Z database for Tonga only returns one card with 2gb of VRAM, and in addition to being a different die I also don’t think the 280X/290X ever were offered in a 2gb configuration.

Little surprised by the use of a R9 285, though. AMD actually made versions of the FirePro with branded coolers for medical imaging companies, where they’ve apparently carved out a niche. I’d have expected either a vanilla W7100 or one branded to match the machine, depending on who built it.

 

[Cyber1999]

Little surprised by the use of a R9 285, though. AMD actually made versions of the FirePro with branded coolers for medical imaging companies, where they’ve apparently carved out a niche. I’d have expected either a vanilla W7100 or one branded to match the machine, depending on who built it.

Hmm, I think the idea here was cutting costs. The R9 285 was round about 250 USD, had the full GCN 3.0 instruction set and the "limited" 2GB VRAM wasn't a deal breaker it seems. IIRC the W7100 was north of 750 USD at release and strangely enough is still available.

 

[Master_Shifu]

I work at a company that makes dental lab equipment and some of our newer scanners are rocking i9-14700 and RTX 4070s. We have even fired IT guys that have taken some of the dental lab computers home for "testing" and we find out they just wanted a gaming machine.

Hilarious I wonder how dental labs equipment are missing. Found out it was gamers, probably they head the news before and start testing every version of counter strike.