http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/ Engadget Comments for Windows 7 to feature GPU acceleration like Apple's Snow Leopard? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 6:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 7:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/
Sure, it isn't made by Microsoft, but neither is OpenCL.]]>Oct 27th 2008 7:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 7:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html

Needs 10.5.2 or later, and there it is. (hit the dropdown box)]]>Oct 27th 2008 7:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/I understand that there are some biased opinions on mediums out there. Cough, Fox. But In your case I really am sick of it. This is nothing more than relentless Microsoft/Vista bashing, it's arrogant, unprofessional and could be considered yellow journalism. I even voted for you in the best gadget blog, or whatever it is. Now I want that vote back, this is a disgusting display of "fanboy-ism". So consider this my indefinite last post and visit to mac-gadget, I mean iNgadget. You see where this is going. Everyone on the comments section agrees, cut the crap. You have a great site, but you ruin it with this level of...I have no other word than bullshit.

Much luv,
Burko]]>Oct 27th 2008 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/
Totally agree with sburko on this one. It is totally unprofessional that these editors are all biassed bloggers and not true journalists. Anyone can read an article and put their ignorant mac friendly spin on any "good for Microsoft" news, but it is WRONG.

THOMAS RICKER I AM LOOKING AT YOU. STOP THE BS.]]>Oct 27th 2008 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/
Snow Leopard takes the GPU one step further by allowing any and all applications to run from the GPU, even sidestepping the CPU in a lot of cases, so that OS X can run the primary operating system, unencumbered in the background.


]]>Oct 27th 2008 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/
Except of course that OpenCL is, well, open. Windows 7 technologies are proprietary.]]>Oct 27th 2008 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/
I google "GPU accelerated applications" and the first hit is this article with not much of anything else. I added "in Windows" to the search and still no luck. I thought this was a totally new thing? First Saad gets a highest rank for saying that Vista already supports this, then JerkfacedFed gets a highest rank for disagreeing. Then shortly after that JerkfacedFed gets a highest rank for retracting his previous statement. WTF???

Could someone help a brotha out and 'splain to me what I'm missing?]]>Oct 27th 2008 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/
For more information, visit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation#Features]]>Oct 27th 2008 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/
http://www.thirteen23.com/labs/winfx/downloads/publish/nostalgia/nostalgia.application

And visit this link for more WPF Apps:

http://www.thirteen23.com/experiences/desktop/

Enjoy some eye pleasing goodness. :)]]>Oct 27th 2008 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/

"WPF is included with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, and is also available for Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, and Windows Server 2003."


So you could have even said that it's supported in Windows XP. Unfortunately for now I will have to wait to test that on my machine at home as our Windows XP machines here at work are locked down tight for business. Also, if I can't try that out in Windows XP I guess I'll have to wait until I get on a Vista machine. As far as I know right now, nobody I know personally is running Vista. Most of us are content with Windows XP or OSX.

As for what I thought was different and new, I thought it had something to do with utilizing the GPU for totally non graphical processing. Is that what is happening here or did I dream that up somewhere? It's not really clear to me.]]>Oct 27th 2008 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/
If you think the posts are bad, have you even heard the podcast? It's disgusting!]]>Oct 27th 2008 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/
It's the end of an era (me thinks anyway). Granted, Microsoft innovated in plenty of stuff, i just don't find that all that innovation was geared towards an efficient use of the hardware it was installed on. To call it something, it didn't degrade gracefully. Macs don't have that trouble because you would know when it's time to buy a new Mac (and also you would need even more money to get a newer one than a new PC). And Linux can do all those things but, alas, it's still rough around the edges (just where the customers pass their fingers over)...

Microsoft Windows 7 must better take care of what Vista was lacking, it wasn't innovation, it must be more intuitive because if you are going to have too much hassle (and more of the same troubles that plague Windows) then consumers might get tempted to switch to any other OS (Haiku anyone? Or maybe Amiga? BeOS?).

Apple won't be an option when price is not an option (if you don't have much you won't be able to spare for one). If Apple releases it's OS outside their hardware or if they prepared low cost alternatives, they might definitively dent Microsoft's marketshare.

Linux might (just might) become that OS IF somebody finds a middle ground between the ultratechnical and the dumbed down and incomplete... The distro that gets it right (and finds a hardware distributor to call it a combo) will make money, and a serious dent on Microsoft's marketshare.

Go Microsoft, i want to be wowed this time for real. Go Apple, release OSX so we don't need Hackintoshes. Go Linux, refine yourselves. Competition is what makes innovation. Everything else is just FUD from fanboys. ]]>Oct 27th 2008 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/
Here are the facts:
When Engadget wrote "GPU acceleration", they really meant "GPGPU" which expands to "general-purpose computing on graphics processing units". Also known as "stream processing", it refers to the concept of utilizing GPUs for arbitrary data processing instead of being restricted to just 3D graphics. As graphics chips have evolved over the last decade, they have switched from being specialized, fixed-function graphics hardware to flexible, highly-programmable parallel processors.

Both nVidia and AMD/ATI have been developing and marketing SDK solutions that allow programmers to take advantage of the massive computational capabilities of GPUs for data-parallel processing (think audio/video encoding/decoding/processing, graphics manipulation, molecular modeling, scientific computing and simulations, Oil/Gas geo-engineering, visualization, etc.). Although Nvidia's "CUDA" SDK has seen some popularity, the future of GPGPU will most likely be in standardized libraries like. Apple is pushing their "OpenCL" standard for OSX 10.6 "Snow Leopard", and Microsoft is pushing DirectX11's "computational shaders" for the same purpose.

also, "Saad" is simply talking about traditional graphics acceleration of the user interface in OSX and Vista.
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Screw the GPU and start supporting proper dedicated processors. Something like Toshiba's cell should be in every PC - . It would mean screaming performance for audio / video codecs, compression, crypto, physics etc. ]]>Nov 20th 2008 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 6:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 6:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/
Ugh]]>Oct 27th 2008 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/
It has a GPU accelerated windowing engine (DWM), but I've not heard of any applications running code in a CUDA-type way through OS features. Oh, and both OSX and Linux had GPU-accelerated windowing ages before Vista. There is no GPGPU SDK in Vista as far as I'm aware.

It's good that Microsoft is going to include GPGPU in DirectX 11. I just wish they would work with Apple on standards - OpenCL is designed to be a standard (only insofar as that Apple is calling Microsoft's bluff - they know Microsoft won't accept it or work with it, so they'll claim it's 'open' and be open source heroes).]]>Oct 27th 2008 7:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/
The standard OpenGL has gone really far, has it not?

In the end, there are not going to be many applications that will even need either DX11 or OpenCL. It seems hard enough to write an encoder that uses the GPU to encode. I'm still waiting for that to come out (in a working fashion).]]>Oct 27th 2008 7:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/
Actually, it has. Not only is it deeply integrated in to OSX, but it's also on the iPhone, Sony Playstation 2 and 3 and PSP, and forms the backbone for Linux's 3D effects. Pretty much everything that needs 3D or hardware accelerated graphics and isn't from Microsoft uses OpenGL.

DirectX is bad for the industry. It ties developers down to Windows and Microsoft platforms in the same way Microsoft broke internet standards to promote Internet Explorer and kill off Netscape. Forcing people to stay on your platform through proprietary software is bad. Why do you think there aren't many Mac games? DirectX. That might seem like a "competitive advantage", but it's bad for software developers, and means Microsoft don't have much incentive to innovate - developers are tied to their platform whether they do a good job or not.]]>Oct 27th 2008 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/
I think you're confusing 'complaining' with 'wanting parity'. We also don't want Engadget to become just another Apple sponsored weblog like Gizmodo.]]>Oct 27th 2008 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/
Too late.]]>Oct 27th 2008 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/]]>Oct 27th 2008 6:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://research.microsoft.com/Research/downloads/Details/25e1bea3-142e-4694-bde5-f0d44f9d8709/Details.aspx).

So yes, this is something that is not yet supported in Vista (or Leopard for that matter). Apple has announced that Snow Leopard will feature built in support for OpenCL. Hence this article, methinks.]]>Oct 27th 2008 7:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 7:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/
Also check out this article for more suggested features: http://www.martijnbrant.net/2008/10/windows-7-looking-ahead-at-pdc]]>Oct 27th 2008 7:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 7:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/- Better Bluetooth Support
- A new integrated software to control Audio/Video settings
- A new ControlCenter to manage all preferences. (Maybe Control Panel will be like Prefs on OS X)

And some fresh new features that are in SnowLeopard... Such as 32-bit and 64-bit switching....

[Via ZDNet Article]
]]>Oct 27th 2008 7:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 7:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/
This has nothing to do with eye candy.]]>Oct 27th 2008 7:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/Oct 27th 2008 7:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/they'll ban you from engadget with that attitude!
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The only decent browsers on Windows are Firefox and Chrome. FF is cross-platform, and Chrome is based on WebKit (i.e. Safari engine). Even IE was better on OSX than Windows (used the MS-developed Tasman engine, which was more standards compliant than Trident)]]>Oct 27th 2008 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-to-feature-gpu-acceleration-just-like-os-x-snow-leopar/
Did you guys know the Snow Leopard is endangered and is dying out?

Poor Kitty :(

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