Overclocked Radeon Card Breaks 1 GHz 199
dacaldar writes "According to Yahoo Finance, noted Finnish over-clockers Sampsa Kurri and Ville Suvanto have made world history by over-clocking a graphics processor to engine clock levels above 1 GHz. The record was set on the recently-announced Radeon® X1800 XT graphics processor from ATI Technologies Inc."
One wonders... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:GPU to excel CPU (Score:3, Interesting)
GPU vs. CPU Speed (Score:1, Interesting)
Are they made on a different process? Are they made with different materials? Are there signifigantly more transistors on a GPU?
Why don't we have a 3Ghz GPU?
It was 2D mode only (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:GPU to excel CPU (Score:3, Interesting)
What I've been waiting for is some sort of mathematics program (I used to use Mathematica in college) that could utilize this concentrated power, rather than hampering the CPU.
Does anyone know if any researchers have gone as far as to utilize a GPU for anything like this?
Re:It was 2D mode only (Score:2, Interesting)
The phrase "maximum system stability" though might be misleading. If you define it as just POSTing, then man I've done some awesome overclocking myself!
Interesting that these overclockers are "noted", and "Finnish." That does sort of give them a little mystique, no? Anytime I hear about a Noted [country name] [scientist|engineer] I always think of an older guy in a white lab coat in some top secret super science facility working on amazing advances in science, like overclocking consumer video cards.