CPU过剩主义者可以用Atom搭配280 SLI了

VGASOS

這個用在工作站科學叢集咚

dabeit

老黄的梦想就是未来的电脑只需要一块NV的显卡。。。。

kknd.jr

原帖由 天下18 于 2008-12-18 13:40 发表
看来NV的淡化CPU的策略相当成功了啊

不说啥不说啥不说啥，看来这里是I/N大战了......

itany

原帖由 dabeit 于 2008-12-18 12:06 发表
老黄的梦想就是未来的电脑只需要一块NV的显卡。。。。

我觉得现阶段老黄的梦想是每个电脑有3块NV的显卡吧

itany

原帖由 天下18 于 2008-12-18 13:40 发表
看来NV的淡化CPU的策略相当成功了啊

NV联合PC厂商向Intel施压 促开放Atom平台

驱动之家[原创] 作者：Skyangeles 编辑：Skyangeles　2008-12-18 11:54:39 3513 人阅读 [投递]

NVIDIA公司今天已经对外宣布了针对Intel Atom处理器的“Ion Platform”离子平台，使用MCP7A/MCP79芯片组。或许大家会理所当然的认为Intel和NVIDIA之间达成了某种协议甚至合作，但事实并非如此，Intel甚至至今还未开放Atom平台使用其他芯片组产品。 据台湾媒体报道，NVIDIA MCP芯片组业务总经理Drew Henry日前造访台湾，将和台湾PC厂商（估计是华硕、宏碁这些热衷Atom产品的厂家）商议，联合向Intel施压，迫使后者开放Atom平台，允许厂商推出使用MCP7A/MCP79芯片组的Atom平台产品。 Drew Henry表示，Atom处理器拥有极高的性价比，但只能搭配Intel自家的945GSE和945GC芯片组限制了这款处理器的发展前景。NVIDIA希望能够和PC厂商合作，推出使用MCP7A/MCP79芯片组的Atom平台产品，大大提升Netbook和Nettop产品线的图形性能。 不过Drew Henry也承认，这一计划还没有得到Intel的首肯。目前，Intel向PC厂商提供Atom处理器仍然采用套装形式，即Atom处理器和搭配的945芯片组成套定价，必须统一购买。在这种模式下，不管NVIDIA的芯片组产品有多么优秀，PC厂商也很难有理由放弃已经花钱买到的Intel芯片组，换用NVIDIA产品。NVIDIA此次和PC厂商协商的目的，就是希望这些厂商能够直接向Intel提出单独购买Atom CPU的要求，实际上就相当于要求Intel接受NVIDIA加入Atom平台市场的事实。 Drew Henry指出，他无法预言Intel是否会同意PC厂商的要求，不过他相信他们的计划最终会令Intel在低成本PC市场上收益。

inaty

Introducing NVIDIA’s Ion PlatformThe combination of two is called the Ion platform and the reference design fits into a pico-ITX form factor:


A Pico-ITX motherboard measures 10 cm x 7.2 cm (3.94” x 2.83”), by comparison a standard ATX motherboard measures 30.5 cm x 24.4 cm (12” x 9.6”). If you’re bad at visualizing dimensions, perhaps this picture will help:


An ATX motherboard (left) vs. a Pico ITX Ion board (right)

The reference motherboard is very simple; you’ve got an Intel Atom CPU and a GeForce 9400M next to each other, a single SATA connector and a DDR3 SO-DIMM slot on the other side of the board. And this little thing is powerful enough to play HD video (8 - 25Mbps H.264):


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That's 27% CPU utilization on an Intel Atom processor when playing back a 18Mbps 1080p H.264 scene

Note that this is the very same 9400M that’s in the new Apple notebooks, not a watered down version, the clocks, features and performance are the same (although presumably OEMs could choose to underclock the graphics core for particularly power/heat sensitive applications).



NVIDIA even built an ugly looking reference machine to show you what was possible with Ion:

It's the Ion reference design, OEMs will build prettier looking devices

That’s an entire PC, along with a 2.5” HDD, it ran Windows Vista just fine and had no problems playing HD video. It can even play games although we didn’t get a chance to see any run on it.

It's that small


Ion on top of a Mac mini


Ion vs. Mac mini once more

NVIDIA claims that a netbook running with the Ion platform should have the same battery life as one running on the conventional Atom + 945G setup.



NVIDIA wasn’t able to leave us with an Ion system to test before today’s announcement, but we have seen it operational - it works and it’s tiny. NVIDIA’s vision for Ion extends far beyond netbooks and cheap PCs, systems based on Ion could easily be powerful HTPC front ends connecting to networked storage.



Let me also point out that since this is the same 9400M chipset we’ve reviewed, Ion has full support for 8-channel LPCM over HDMI. That’s even more capable than most ATX HTPCs. If you tossed a 500GB 2.5” HDD in one of these things, you could carry your HTPC with you. That’s probably a silly usage model but it highlights the power and versatility of this platform. Ion is cool.

Prescott

原帖由 inaty 于 2008-12-17 00:23 发表
看看NV怎么说的

nVIDIA亚太高管：CPU大势已去　GPU比CPU重要 金羊网 2008-05-10 10:36:29  来源:
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哈哈哈，莊海鸥当年可是Intel的市场总监。

风之力

俺来看搞笑贴的

itany

哈哈哈，莊海鸥当年可是Intel的市场总监。
Prescott 发表于 2008-12-19 12:59

呵呵，这些搞市场的就是屁股决定嘴巴啊