PUs in the future

[PerfectPlasma]

What do you guys think about the future of GPUs and CPUs? How fast do you think GPUs will get and how far do you think we are from the fastest and most efficient possible graphics processors? How small and efficient and powerful do you think we can get CPUs while keeping their TPD relatively low?

[ShadySocks]

Usually whenever I think about this topic, I feel like intel, nvidia, and AMD are purposely handicapping their products so that they can release a faster one every year. How likley is is that they make a new breakthrough every year, when they could have just made a much faster processor one year and then saved billions by handicapping it, and decreasing the handicap as needed to satisfy the audience.

[PerfectPlasma]

Just now, ShadySocks said:

Usually whenever I think about this topic, I feel like intel, nvidia, and AMD are purposely handicapping their products so that they can release a faster one every year. How likley is is that they make a new breakthrough every year, when they could have just made a much faster processor one year and then saved billions by handicapping it, and decreasing the handicap as needed to satisfy the audience.

AMD is actually showing effort to bring faster and better processors, but Intel apparently doesn't care and NVidia launching a $3k card as the flagship doesn't help much

[kirashi]

18 minutes ago, PerfectPlasma said:

What do you guys think about the future of GPUs and CPUs? How fast do you think GPUs will get and how far do you think we are from the fastest and most efficient possible graphics processors? How small and efficient and powerful do you think we can get CPUs while keeping their TPD relatively low?

I'll say the same thing I've been saying since 2012 - until we find a better way to cool our current technology, we're only going to see things get smaller and smaller, not faster. Right now heat is the bottleneck in our pursuit of performance.

[ARikozuM]

5 minutes ago, PerfectPlasma said:

AMD is actually showing effort to bring faster and better processors, but Intel apparently doesn't care and NVidia launching a $3k card as the flagship doesn't help much

If Intel were to shove hexa-cores and octa-cores in the days of FX, we would have no AMD and only two Intels to choose from. Same goes for Nvidia. This "effort" you're suggesting is just as bad as allowing the giants to tamp the land with AMD as its soil. 

[GoldenLag]

22 minutes ago, Sierra Fox said:

it's a specialty card. it's not for the regular consumers..

Still a flagship. The Titan pascal wasnt for gaming either, it is still a flagship. Even if it is productivity oriented it is still aimed at the prosumer and consumet market. Sorry for mansplaining

[kilgore_T]

get 2x 1080ti equivalent chips into a small factor VR HMD passively cooled with a power requirement of 2 aaa batteries for 20 bucks

that's the future I want

 

[Nicnac]

Oh I believe they can stretch out their remaining improvements for well over 100 years until we actually hit the limit of silicon chips as we know them.

[teddygala]

7 hours ago, ShadySocks said:

Usually whenever I think about this topic, I feel like intel, nvidia, and AMD are purposely handicapping their products so that they can release a faster one every year. How likley is is that they make a new breakthrough every year, when they could have just made a much faster processor one year and then saved billions by handicapping it, and decreasing the handicap as needed to satisfy the audience.

I think that's more of basic marketing to keep clients interested than anything else. All mainstream brands do that nowadays. 

[ArduinoBen]

Because the electrons will jump around the circuits if we get too much smaller, the manufacturing process size will soon be capped out.  I think that in the near future Quantum processors will become more popular, but for the time being, CPUs will have bigger coolers, and become bigger overall.  But I do agree that companies are not doing anywhere near their best to innovate, one thing that is sad to realize is that these are companies, and they are pushed to make the product that will sell the best, which means adding unnecessary features and marketing BS while caring less about the actual performance.

 

I think there is more room for improvement for graphics cards, and cooling will still be a big bottleneck.

 

I've always thought that in the future, laptops would be very efficient, but since we are nearing the minimum manufacturing size, I don't really know how this could happen, unless something can be done about the resistance of metal used in computer hardware.

[PerfectPlasma]

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