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SiSoftware Sandra 2009 Interview with Adrian Silasi

SiSoftware this week will release a new version of their popular
application, Sandra. New in Sandra 2009, a handy system tool and
analyzer, is GPU and in specific, a set Generic purpose GPU and GPU
render tests. Next to that you'll also spot a test to measure
framebuffer bandwidth.

Suffice that say, that's our cup of thee and therefore we wanted to
fire off a small Q&A session at the lead programmer of SANDRA and
Hardware Guru himself, Adrian Silasi. Topics involve SANDRA 2009,
GPUs and compute API's like CUDA and CAL.

[Guru3D] With DirectX 11 slowly surfacing on that cyber horizon one
fixed function in the pipeline will be Compute Shaders. Do you think
CUDA and CAL will become a thing of the past once Microsoft opens up
Compute Shaders through their API ?

On the Windows platform, judging by the past, it is highly
likely that DirectX 11 will dominate, as supporting a single API is
far better than supporting many vendor specific APIs. It is a pity
DirectX 11 is not ready now; hopefully it will be out by the time
other vendors (Intel, etc.) join the fray.

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