Nvidia in 2015 & chess engines

[Yar]

Hello,

According to this article Nvidia will have 11 nm process technology that feature roughly 5,000 cores and 20 teraflops of performance video chip in 2015.

Each video card can have two chips, and computer can have 3 video cards. So total perfomance could be about 120 teraflops. Thats comparable to modern supercomps. It will be interesting if chess engines will support such supercomps based on video cards in the future.

http://www.eetimes.com/rss/showArticle. ... =218900011

With best regards,
Yar

[Sean Evans]

Hello,

According to this article Nvidia will have 11 nm process technology that feature roughly 5,000 cores and 20 teraflops of performance video chip in 2015.

Each video card can have two chips, and computer can have 3 video cards. So total perfomance could be about 120 teraflops. Thats comparable to modern supercomps. It will be interesting if chess engines will support such supercomps based on video cards in the future.

http://www.eetimes.com/rss/showArticle. ... =218900011

With best regards,
Yar

Video cards make graphics better, they have no effect on the chess engine.

[Dann Corbit]

Hello,

According to this article Nvidia will have 11 nm process technology that feature roughly 5,000 cores and 20 teraflops of performance video chip in 2015.

Each video card can have two chips, and computer can have 3 video cards. So total perfomance could be about 120 teraflops. Thats comparable to modern supercomps. It will be interesting if chess engines will support such supercomps based on video cards in the future.

http://www.eetimes.com/rss/showArticle. ... =218900011

With best regards,
Yar

Video cards make graphics better, they have no effect on the chess engine.

At some point, we will no longer be able to ignore the video card (or other massively parallel systems like Larabee) because the compute power of these systems will dwarf other methods into insignificance.

BTW, I have chess engine source code that uses floating point for evaluations.

Also, there are CUDA chess engines (at least two that I know of are being developed).

[Sean Evans]

At some point, we will no longer be able to ignore the video card (or other massively parallel systems like Larabee) because the compute power of these systems will dwarf other methods into insignificance

Strange, is a GPU can become, so powerful, why would the CPU be able to match or exceed it? Is not the GPU really just a variation of a CPU?