Windows 7 Plays Crysis without GPU.

Whoa that is AWESOME! I am officially a fan of windows 7!
 
WOW! Might be the beginning of the end for graphics cards?
 
Or CPUs? When they become synonymous, what will they be called and who will make them?

AMD/ATI is already there, what about nVidia & Intel?
 
Intel has its own GPU plans.
Secondly, even on the Nehalem, the fps is 5! Geee thanks Microsoft, what a waste.
 
The settings were at 800x600 with no effects turned on. It just barely scraped past the Intel onboard solutions.

The comments at DailyTech were quite interesting on this news.
 
The idea is to able run your pc without a graphics card in circumstances where you dont have/need one. I think this technology is more aimed at saving costs for office pc's than high end gamer rigs.
 
I agree that this is most likely for office PCs. Running something is one thing having it be usable is another all together.
 
CorneN said:
The idea is to able run your pc without a graphics card in circumstances where you dont have/need one. I think this technology is more aimed at saving costs for office pc's than high end gamer rigs.
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Running your PC without a graphics card? So how is the data going to get to the monitor? You still need a VGA/DVI/DisplayPort connection and those
feed off the graphics card (integrated or discrete). Often, at least I've had this happen, the 3D bit can be damaged but 2D still works. So your OS and productivity apps will still run. Games on the other hand running at 5fps
are unplayable and while newer CPUs come out all the time, newer games
also follow suit. Many 3D games run in software mode and while UGLY
at least many are playable that way. Running at 5fps without any effects is
moronic.
 
It's a load of overhyped turd if you ask me.

The structure of a CPU is never going to be able to handle the mass scale, repetitive actions a GPU is specifically designed for. Yes, a CPU can help a GPU, but that's really just regression to where we were before. Remember the fanfare about on GPU T&L? That was a huge thing because the GPU was now able to take some of the stress off the much slower CPU.

In fact for me the interesting development is the GPU aiding the CPU in repetitive, simple tasks and the enormous benefit that could reap. You only have to look at the results of folding@home since the app was able to use DX10 GPU's along with CPU's.

Those here that seem to think that the CPU taking over the GPU's job is something to really look forward to with Windows 7 really need to check out the benchmarks and understand them before making those kind of comments.
 
PeterCH said:
Running your PC without a graphics card? So how is the data going to get to the monitor? You still need a VGA/DVI/DisplayPort connection and those
feed off the graphics card (integrated or discrete).
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I'm pretty sure he meant without having to buy an add-on graphics card (IE one that not ONBOARD and you plug into a PCI-E slot)
Geez man why do you always have to give everyone so much crap. Lighten up a little
 
charlie_82 said:
I'm pretty sure he meant without having to buy an add-on graphics card (IE one that not ONBOARD and you plug into a PCI-E slot)
Geez man why do you always have to give everyone so much crap. Lighten up a little
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I'm pretty sure I meant that as well. ;)

But that does raise a question though. Why have a 3D support in office machines, which with onboard graphics can already do their job? If it is for gaming, the performance boost in games comes at a cost of CPU time.

/declares the technology a marketing gimmick and redundant and moves on...
 
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