terça-feira, 17 de junho de 2008

Fw: AMD's Cinema 2.0 demo: "you won't just play movies, you'll play in them"

URL: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/313566920/

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming

That's a bold promise AMD. Nevertheless, a cinema-realistic gaming
experience is exactly what they demonstrated yesterday in San
Francisco. Cinema 2.0, according to AMD, is "a milestone achievement in
ultra-realistic and interactive visual computing." Perhaps, but then
the marketing-speak launches into unnecessary hyperbole with AMD
calling its new teraFLOPS chip at the heart of the demo -- the RV770
GPU -- "more powerful than every generation of game console every
brought to market combined." Really AMD? Last we counted there were
about 13 million Cell processors scattered across the PS3 terra firma.
But we'll assume that you're referring to a mythical mashup of a
singular PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PS2, etc. with a little Magnavox Odyssey
sprinkled on top. Still, you might find the hype warranted when you
realize that the demonstration was powered by a single PC loaded with a
pair of (future) consumer-grade AMD RV770 graphics cards, Phenom X4
9850 processor, and 790FX chipset. Take a look for yourself in the
video after the break.

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