AMD Next-Gen GPU Runs Crysis on iPhone
OTOY demonstrated its game streaming service by running Crysis on an iPhone and using AMD's latest GPU server-side.
Yesterday Ars Technica reported that it attended an AMD event on board the USS Hornet, and was able to check out the company's future products first-hand. Although the site was floored by 2.5 teraFLOPS of floating-point power provided by AMD's next-gen GPU, Ars seemed rather tickled to see all that processing power enabling a Crysis demo to run on an iPhone. In fact, Ars said it was probably "the most profoundly intriguing use of AMD's upcoming GPU."
That's right, Crysis. OTOY was responsible for such a feat, offering a service that supposedly delivers 3D games in real-time across the Internet without bogging down the target device, whether it's a low-end PC or, in this case, Apple's iPhone. The process works by rendering the game on a server machine (notably using AMD's new GPU no less), and the frames are grabbed by OTOY's server-side software. The frames are then compressed and delivered over the network to the client. The client software thus decompresses the frames and displays them in a window. User input is then sent back to the server over UDP.
In the case of the Crysis demo, the presentation appeared to work flawlessly. "The iPhone's screen was small enough that I couldn't discern any compression artifacts, and the gameplay was smooth and responsive," said Ars Technica's Jon Stokes. "Aside from the half-baked control scheme, which was apparently hacked together at the last minute, this really was Crysis running on an iPhone."
Stokes did bring up a good point in his hands-on with the Crysis demo: why would AMD/ATI think that streaming games across the Internet is a good long-term idea? After all, wouldn't the company make more money off gamers and general consumers purchasing new graphics cards than gaming services upgrading their render farms? More than likely the company probably sees the streaming market as a new source of revenue in addition to current consumer consumption... at least for now.
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Its not really running on it, just streaming video
not video streaming, that's the game itself running on an other machine. kinda remote desktop practically, you CAN play the game.
It is video streaming, because its streaming the video from the other computer to the iphone.
yes its the picture of the other computer but not a video (that's youtube, man). you can control it via your input device.
Well duh, I read the bloody article and have used streammygame.
Streaming is a term that describes the reception of the information as it is presented to the user.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media
"Streaming media are multimedia that are constantly received by, and normally presented to, an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider"
yes, but a streamed media can be interactive. e.g. games.
Intelligent terminal.
How'd you control the game... with on screen switches..phew..
that's a different story mate
so what happens when you dont have enough bandwidth? lower the graphics? ISPs complained about p2p, just imagine this.
Good concept and should be great , but still streaming video practically. Now why didn't I think of this first?
I wonder how long will it take to have a mobile solution capable of playing Crysis for real not streamed.
Why Crysis?? Needa try others..
Crysis is considered as THE power hog. Also Stalker Clear Sky or any other.
Well, it won't matter what game it is... what really will matter though is your Provider...
)) So effectively this will be a feature like "mobile TV" - interesting... but completely useless due to network capabilities of UK providers... Ohmm... Sorry I meant US providers - at the end of a day this is the .CO.UK site - so we obviously need to follow THG's rules - we only discuss things from the "best country in the world" on .co.uk 
)))
Its remote desktopping, but the twist is that they can relay the rendered images and controls in such a quick fashion.
Normal terminal services, rdp etc relay window messages and lock up as soon as they have to transfer images. Try using Photoshop remotely and you will see what i mean.
What these guys have done will be used in so much more than just gaming.
That's cool, but can it run Crysis?
That's cool, but can it run Crysis?
Ummm... No.