AMDs next generation GPU architecture featuring 2.5 teraFLOPs

I can’t believe I was out of town for AMD’s big Sept 10 event.  They announce their Eyefinity multi-display technology (driving up to six monitors simultaneously at resolutions up to 2,560x1,600 pixels each), and they demod Crysis, the standard gaming benchmark for high-end 3D hardware, running on an iPhone.  Huh?

At the event, AMD unveiled its next-generation GPU architecture with 2.5 teraFLOPS of floating-point power (over twice current high-end cards!). To show off how this could translate to applications, they showed OTOY’s software, running on AMD servers and new GPUs,  delivering 3D games in real-time over the Internet to the iPhone. The report from Ars Technica is impressive and worth the read. 

ZDNet also gives some details in the discussion about “cloud computing vs game consoles”

VentureBeat also has a good description of the Eyefinity and how it applies to different markets.