Futrure Graphics Cards

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Futrure Graphics Cards

ATI and Nvidia will have a tough fight on their hands when Intel wades into the graphics battle.

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The final evolution came with unified shaders introduced in DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.0. At this point there's no distinction between vertex or pixel shaders. Cards have 'unified' shaders, akin to having hundreds of tiny dedicated processing units and are found on both the GeForce 8 and Radeon HD 2000, and later generations of cards.

This has enabled both AMD and Nvidia to start offering GP-GPU features and programming languages for current graphics cards and which allow them to process physics and other mathematically complex data alongside 3D rendering.