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[COCKLES]

...enter the 512MB videocard.

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050226_174539.html

Dallas (TX) - ATI chose the Texas Gaming Festival LAN party to put the industry's first graphics card with 512 MByte memory into the spotlight. The modified X850 XT is a prototype using dual-rank design. Commercial models with half a gig memory are likely to follow later this year.

The official announcement of the "world's first 512 MByte gaming card" came last Thursday after rumors about the card already had spread on discussion boards across the Internet. The X850 XT will debut late Saturday at the at the Texas Gaming Festival LAN party in Dallas, Texas. So far, the card is just a developer model, but ATI stated there are plans to implement 512 MByte of GDDR3 onto future cards.

 

[mr2mike]

If system processes could use that memory when not gaming... you know, like using it as a fat ass ramdisk over the AGP or something, that'd be cool...

...But as it is, it's just for nerds wanting to wack off to their card.

 

[shoplifter]

WOOT, finally I'll be able to turn EQ2 up to max!

 

[marsomega]

Actually, you will probably most likely not see any X850 or any current ATI card with that much on board memory yet....

http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?p=1054522#post1054522

 

[gofreak]

If system processes could use that memory when not gaming... you know, like using it as a fat ass ramdisk over the AGP or something, that'd be cool...

...But as it is, it's just for nerds wanting to wack off to their card.

Could be possible with PCI-Express, although apps would have to be coded to do that. Moreover, eventually bus speeds should become so fast that we'll migrate towards a UMA architecture (?)

 

[DonasaurusRex]

Its possible , some researchers now are straight using video cards for computations because they are so many times faster than a general purpose CPU. Of course its for something like modeling a gas cloud.