NVIDIA may have laid claim to the world's fastest single-GPU graphics-card, but at a press conference in San Francisco, fellow graphics-rival, AMD, was making bold claims of its own.
AMD's demonstration, dubbed "Cinema 2.0", claims to deliver "a milestone achievement in ultra-realistic and interactive visual computing through the processing power of its forthcoming teraFLOPS graphics chip, codenamed RV770."
The ambitious claims don't stop there, either. AMD states that the teraFLOPS chip used to power the Cinema 2.0 demo is more powerful than every generation of game console ever brought to market combined. Yep, its saying that RV770, a card rumoured to be priced around the $200 mark, is more powerful than all the consoles, combined.
To AMD's credit, it provided a very realistic video of ATI icon, Ruby. The video, viewable by clicking here, is said to be rendered in real-time on a demo system consisting of two RV770 graphics cards rated at one teraFLOPS each, an AMD Phenom X4 quad-core processor and AMD's 790 FX Chipset.
It all looks mighty impressive, but AMD's claims of cinema-like computer games are, in our estimation, likely to be a little far fetched. AMD is talking the talk now that its HD 4800 series is just around the corner. Sadly, cinema-like games are still years away.
Official press release: AMD Demonstrates the Cinema 2.0 Experience, Punches Hole in ‘Sensory Barrier’ Separating Cinema and Games
