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Thread ID: 135988 2014-01-07 00:09:00 Super grunty chips anyone? Webdevguy (17166) PC World Chat
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1364459 2014-01-07 00:09:00 Food for thought...

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Webdevguy (17166)
1364460 2014-01-07 00:18:00 ??? Greg (193)
1364461 2014-01-07 00:21:00 ???


The next stage in super grunty chips for mobile phones.. kinda handy for gaming.
Webdevguy (17166)
1364462 2014-01-07 01:12:00 Define "next stage" and "super grunty" please.


Do you, by any chance, happen to remember what NVIDIA promised us exactly 3 years ago?

They said their Kal El chips were faster than Core2Duos.
Remember how flexible they were with their benchmarks.


It's nice that they don't say anything at all this time around. :)
Cato (6936)
1364463 2014-01-07 06:29:00 As long as it can handle a full 640 K of ram without stress . . . . . ;) R2x1 (4628)
1364464 2014-01-07 09:18:00 So in the future we'll be plugging a USB keybord, mouse, HDD and monitor into a cellphone when we want the old fashioned desktop experience or gaming.

Oh yeah, and the big freezer block attached to the phone to keep all those cores cool will bring back memories of those ol' brick style cellphones of the 80's
Paul.Cov (425)
1364465 2014-01-07 20:48:00 So in the future we'll be plugging a USB keybord, mouse, HDD and monitor into a cellphone when we want the old fashioned desktop experience or gaming.

Oh yeah, and the big freezer block attached to the phone to keep all those cores cool will bring back memories of those ol' brick style cellphones of the 80's

Nope, theoretically you won't need the desktop because your phone will give you the full 3D gaming experience with gesture and motion control. :)
Webdevguy (17166)
1364466 2014-01-07 21:08:00 Had some super chips the other night, best packet ones I have had! Cicero (40)
1364467 2014-01-07 22:50:00 I think the day is definately coming when a smartphone can replace a laptop/desktop for many users, they already can to an extent. As for gaming even my aging S3 looks pretty damn impressive running 3Dmark in HD, smartphones have passed previous gen consoles for power and graphics capability already.

All it takes is a dock of some kind to allow decent controllers and displays to be connected and the software to support it. I don't think touch and gesture really has that much of a future in gaming myself, it's a much poorer control system for that.

Yes it's a step down in quality from a full size system and maybe always will be but that won't necessarily stop them from taking over.
dugimodo (138)
1364468 2014-01-07 23:25:00 I think the day is definately coming when a smartphone can replace a laptop/desktop for many users, they already can to an extent. As for gaming even my aging S3 looks pretty damn impressive running 3Dmark in HD, smartphones have passed previous gen consoles for power and graphics capability already.

All it takes is a dock of some kind to allow decent controllers and displays to be connected and the software to support it. I don't think touch and gesture really has that much of a future in gaming myself, it's a much poorer control system for that.

Yes it's a step down in quality from a full size system and maybe always will be but that won't necessarily stop them from taking over.


The other catch with developing games for desktop PC gamers is that it is a declining market that is expensive to develop games (Games can cost up to $100 million or more to develop en.wikipedia.org) for where as social online games or mobile games you are looking at development costing $100,000 or more to develop with much higher revenue returns expected due to a bigger market of customers.

So my money would be on the future proliferation of mobile games.
Webdevguy (17166)
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