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Okay, I actually found this quite funny. Saw the crop circle thing in the news last week. Turns out it was Nvidia - it's their Denver core.

http://images.anandtech.com/doci/7619/NVCES-066.jpg

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7619/nvidia-ces-2014-press-conference-live-blog

 
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*whisper* nvidiaaaah
The way it's meant to be farmed.


I can see how that has any relevance to anything. Because GPU marketing has to be so "original" they have succumb to this... whatever it is. Long gone are the days when they would show off an image of the core, the GPU, details and relevant benchmarking scores with sane graphs (I'm looking at you AMD, with your retarded graphs that fade at the top of bar charts).
 
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oh does that mean they will move from "silicon" to SillyCorn"? for Denver?
 

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oh does that mean they will move from "silicon" to SillyCorn"? for Denver?

Don't be so childish. :D

They're moving from Cores to Corns. And shaders refers to the huts the farmers stand under during the mid day heat. "My field has 200 000 corns and 10 shaders.

Anyway, it's a green field isn't it? It's their company colour.
 
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Anyway, it's a green field isn't it? It's their company colour.

Then I wonder how Intel and AMD could possibly emulate it with their respective colours.
 

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Then I wonder how Intel and AMD could possibly emulate it with their respective colours.

Intel will fly a biplane through a clear blue sky with one of those banners fluttering lazily behind it. (Skylake?)

AMD will hijack a random tomato festival.

 
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Anyway, it's a green field isn't it? It's their company colour.

nah green is the color of the customer when they realize they have been raped ...

and for amd they are red in rage because of the sh*tcoins (replace sh*t by bit/lite/random ridiculous name for unstable virtual currency) miner who rape them.

(i don't hold a grudge against bitcoins miner ... just against the principe :D )

still nice crop circle tho o_O
 
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Here's a demo of UE4 running on the Tegra K1 chip. Slightly more useful than crop circles ;)
 
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not that much ... tho ...
 
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wait, shouldnt it be the other way around? it's the kiddie miners that are ruining things, the concept is really cool (just like folding or opencl encoding)
well technically ... yes ... still, folding hold a meaning if done freely, BTC/LTC/random do something for research? i may be misleaded probably but for me its just letting a asic miner (more usefull but pricey) or a AMD gpu (ok output but likely prone to inflate market price for nothing and sometime dangerous for the GPU itself) for a virtual unstable currency ...

ahhh i should do deeper research ... ok i re state my statement or not ... psshhh we have miner here ... better not upset those :D
 
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well technically ... yes ... still, folding hold a meaning if done freely, BTC/LTC/random do something for research? i may be misleaded probably but for me its just letting a asic miner (more usefull but pricey) or a AMD gpu (ok output but likely prone to inflate market price for nothing and sometime dangerous for the GPU itself) for a virtual unstable currency ...

ahhh i should do deeper research ... ok i re state my statement or not ... psshhh we have miner here ... better not upset those :D

inflating market, dangerous for gpu, unstable currency, all of that is entirely the fault of the people doing it, not the concept

(i've never mined or folded, i also never installed the opencl component of the drivers on my 4870x2)

it's like the manufacturing of our electronics, the concept is that the abundance of a lot of specific precious metals is in china, a lot of tech companies are china/taiwan/korea/japan, a lot of components that get put on PCBs would be made in the region (like farming, crops grow in certain regions), it also happens to be generally a lower cost of living & wages in the area so that's another incentive for all companies around the world to keep the manufacturing side in the region

but then people... humans start exploiting, they want even lower prices, consumers included, on top of that people want a ton of stock all around the world, we eventually have the repeating foxconn situation that is caused by people, the concept just has the capability for it to happen

or how about cars, the personal/group/storage travelling concept is quite slick (ignoring the faulty fuel), but many drivers are the cause of accidents by being distracted or intoxicated or simply lacking experience

how about the 'free' & 'open' internet, the concept is amazing, but people will bully or hack or whatever

even if we lived in the jungle with nothing, a person will throw a rock at someone else
 
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