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Microsoft and Vista The problem I have with Direct3D10 is that it is used by Microsoft to force Vista on everybody, it is one piece of the Vista puzzle. That was what I meant by talking about the bigger picture. DirectX was always multi-Windows compatible. You could install DX8 on Windows...

Thanks for the link to the other thread. Some admin please close this thread as I'm not able to do it.

I don't know if it is public knowledge here that according to Microsoft and their .ppt presentation: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/2/b/22bfadd8-01b0-4fc4-942b-6e7b1635b214/Intro_to_Direct3D10.ppt DirectX 10 will be Windows Vista ONLY. Reason is the API only supports WDDM graphic...

I'm surprised there is nothing about it here, and in the Press Release forum there seems to be only ATI and nVidia. NEC PR: http://www.necel.com/en/news/archive/0606/1901.html MoSys PR: http://ir.mosysinc.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=123322&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=873477&highlight= Thanks to...

Watch it again http://www.gamespot.com/e3/e3live.html Mr. Iwata / Revolution appearing at 33 min 30 sec

Mr. Satoru Iwata said: "But, the advances in our technology will also relate to areas that have no direct bearing on gameplay." "Our competitors have taken time to detail the power of their core processor and their on screen displays. Let me try to ?? the added benefit of our technical...

A-GPS Search for "A-GPS", Assisted Global Positioning System. Combination of UMTS/GPRS cell location and GPS. Map-Data comes from phone provider via UMTS/GPRS. Usable in europe at least in england and austria. phones...

108 versus 72fps doesn't look so bad for the NV30, if only: it wouldn't be 9700 16x Aniso versus NV30 8x. these numbers wouldn't be from August (=old drivers for 9700). you could base an opinion on those numbers, they could very well be totally uncomparable.

The 37fps score of the 4600 resembles the 4600 [Edit: Asbestos] score in 1280x1024 here: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1686&p=9 Anand probably used 4600 8x Aniso versus 9700 16x Aniso. If only someone would have reliable benchmarks with documented settings..

Yeah, sadly it is an artistic model. You are right, according to an site I had nearly forgotten ( http://www.geocities.com/tnaw_xtennis/NV20-12.htm ) GF2 has 492 and Geforce3 has ~700.

pin count? The chip in the flash thingy has 576 pins. Supposed it shows the real thing, how does it compare? Anyone know the pin count of R300 and/or NV25/R200?

Certainly. But that is mostly the same in the CPU world. Pentium 4's, AthlonXP's, Crusoe's and Itanium's caches differ and must be seen in the architectural context, direct comparisons are pretty useless if you don't take into account the architecture they must assist. You simply need to know...

If you look at the transistor counts of Palamino and Morgan and their different cache sizes its clear they use 8T for their L2, which would be 16,4 million for 256KB.

NV30 isn't ahead of any manufactoring process, it is just that nVidias expectations with regards to yields/performance/price where probably long not met by TSMC. For example, IBM produces its Power4 chip monster with 170 million transistors on an in-house 0.18 SOI copper process and they...

In the AMD Hammer video the chewing gum chewing :roll: AMD guy said Barton will have just 256KB more L2. Barton should have about 54 million, while the core without L1 and L2 has only ~11 million. It's sad that there are not more of such details about modern G/VPU caches and architecture...