AMIGA Graphics card question:

[Karlos]

I didn't mention that because the stock Amigas lack PCI slots and I thought that would be clear.

It might not be to someone unfamiliar with the machine hardware. Additional note, you also need driver software. To some extent, what you use will be determined by which PCI bus expansion you use.

[Karlos]

And soon another Radeon card will follow...

http://hdrlab.org.nz/radeonhd-driver/

That's very cool.

If only nVidia were as open to the developer community That said, I don't imagine any of the current CUDA capable cards are available in AGP form factors.

[Karlos]

:lol: Just imagine CUDA running on Amiga - that would be WAY cool!

I would absolutely love that. The first thing I'd investigate is hardware planar to chunky conversion to allow OS support for old planar modes (with the bitplanes living in the card's memory) with a kernel to perform p2c conversion into a visible framebuffer. Adding support for things like HAM would hardly be taxing, either.

I wonder whether some day we'd get PCIe backplanes for classic Amigas...:banana:

Not very likely, unless someone wants to make a custom northbridge

[Karlos]

In theory, it's doable. If you can convert serial to parallel, the reverse is possible. I dunno how many PCIe gfx cards would work in a single lane though. Not many, I expect. You can get GPUs designed for PCIe with AGP bridging logic to work with older v3 AGP slots, but vanilla PCI is significantly further back still.

Attempting to covert multiple lanes on the card to parallel PCI I simply cannot see working, given the way PCIe does point to point.