Nvision 2008 ends with a bang
AFTER AN AWARDS CEREMONY where medals and cheques were handed out liberally to gamers, software developers and digital artists, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, the hosts of the popular television show, Mythbusters, took the stage at Nvision 2008.
Giving a demonstration to supposedly illustrate the difference between a CPU and a GPU, the pair resorted to their usual explosive antics, with a little help from a couple of robots and a ton of paint.
First up was little Robot, Leonardo, the 'CPU', or peeling off the thin layer of subtelty, Intel. Little Leo huffed and puffed and shot little blue coloured paintballs at a white canvas to eventually draw a primitive but endearing smiley face. The crowd clapped.
But then came BIG Leo, the 'GPU', or, as everyone in the crowd had already guessed, Nvidia.
Throwing plastic sheets into the crowd and yelling, "Cover up, you might get splattered", Savage and Hyneman powered up the monstrous machine.
After a countdown from 10, GPU Leo spurted 1102 paint balls through the air, with a terrific bang, only to recreate a pixelated, yet beautiful representation of the Mona Lisa. The audience went wild and got to its feet, Nvidia staff smiled smugly, its message to Intel as clear as writing, or in this case paint, all over the wall. ยต
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What was the big message? That NV sucks because they are selling dodgy GPU's mixed in with newly repackaged GPU's without identifying to the public which ones are the bad product? No. Was the message the fact that ATI is kicking NV's rump all over the place in every segment? Nope, not that. Some sort of symbolic gesture to piss Intel off so that when the whole "melting GPU" scandal blows up in NV's face and Intel comes a callin' to bend them over and ream them with no luby... I mean, MERGE them into the fold (resistance is futile), it won't be with lowered lights and Barry White music after all? PROBABLY. LOL!!!
On YouTube as always:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKK933KK6Gg
Ethier House Painter of Incredible Skill or State Fair booth, Giant Leo or Tiny Leo could sell something. Indoors, Move Over Dr. WHO, LEO Wants To Paint.

Bit Splasy & Plenty of Plastic Balls left as Mess, however, it works 24/7.
drashek
i mean... i was expecting something more... "incudaligent". For me the first LEO robot was more amazing. In the end it seemed to be more skilled than the big one. The big one was like a inkjet with a fixed printing head. Dumb and huge. I do like cuda a lot, really. But this demostration just demostrated quite the opposite: LEO was more skilled than the big one. Not as fast, but more capable.
I hope Larabee turn to be a really powerful solution, so NVidia will regret that circus show they did. We are talking about Intel... I don't think Intel would launch a crap graphic solution this time... After all, they are putting too much effort on it, it's not another integrated graphic chip, it's something like Fusion, but bigger... I'm expecting a big Intel product to get the graphics competion even wilder.
I would love to see how a PC would render a graphics scene without a CPU in the socket, and a lovely pair of DX10 (not DX10.1 'cause Nvidia don't do that do they?) Nvidia cards in the PCI express slots.

Not being presumptive here, but my guess is it won't boot...

What a bunch of....
Can you please get a comment from Nvidia about whether either of these toys used a CPU or GPU inside them?

If so then why were 2 men controlling the little robot with a remote control and a push with a hand? Are they saying that a CPU was controlling the 2 men?

And the large one, that's not a robot, that was just a bunch of tubes with ink and compressed air. Where is the GPU controlling that?

This has a spin without substance written all over it.

Instead of speinding tens of thousands on 1 minute toy show, they should be focusing on repairing their damaged repuation as a maker of known-to-fail-soon chips.

NVidia - not only do we make poor quality product and then stuff the customer, we also spend time and money playing with toys instead of fixing our business.

Nvidia look so ridiculous right now. Half the management are liars and the other half are clowns.
Actually I agree with everyone here regarding everything. On the flipside of the coin, maybe it's not about the waste of money on the technology and components they used to produce the picture (CPU vs GPU).

I'm looking at it like this.
1.) Robot. Creating a picture, one pixel at a time with low resolution and FPS.
2.) Paintball Gun. Creating a picture in a single shot with high resolution and high FPS.

At the end of the day, I'm happy with my 'good part' 3870 - but I'm expressing my theory as to the purpose of the video.
expect larabee to be all that powerful. Intel's talked more crap than Nvidia about how great it's "Extreme" chipsets work. Doesn't mean that it won't be good, no no. I just won't hold my breath with anticipation. One thing Intel has shown me: Talk big, even if you're carrying a twig (see also: Pentium D vs A64 X2). Heck they talked big as sh*t as the A64 was pounding them in benchmarks.

Wasn't until Core hit the market that they actually earned the right to talk big again.
I remember 
doing the 
Time Warp
Bigass Chipass
open a can of whoop-ass,
You already have the right machine to run... 
You bought it four years ago... 
How much faster can you render the blue screen of death?
Huang! Myff Busted!
How do you nick them Charlies, Roy?
Oh. They lowers the bar.
TWIMTBP
Gunpowder, Gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam 
Guaranteed to blow your mind 
Anytime 
Then momentarily out of action 
Temporarily out of gas 
To absolutely drive you wild, wild
The Green Team
I mean tHe gReam Teen
OEM Deleted to meet you!