Recent content by whitetiger

The purpose of Larrabee is to deny profits to Intel's competitors - primarily NV, but also AMD - there's really not a big enough market for these things for the amount of effort Intel are putting in - the potential profits are tiny compared to Intels CPU Profits - whereas NV is piggy-backing it...

So how wide is the offending crossbar? - 4 In, 4 Out - how wide is each bus? 32-bits? 128-bits? It's probably more of a track routing issue than a number-of-transistors issue....

My favorite was going from a statement that Fermi would be terrible at Tesselation, to claiming Fermi had *too much* tesselation, when it turned out that Fermi was actually quite good at Tesselation..

I'm going to speculate the GTX680 will launch at $399, and the GTX670 at $299 I don't believe NV will launch with price/performance parity with AMD, since 1) They are 3-4 months behind AMD, so equal price-performance will seem lame, and not win any kudos... 2) The GK104 looks to be small &...

Computer says 'No' ... http://alienbabeltech.com/abt/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=24350&start=460#p60389 :wink::roll::wink: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=u0lhrmxSJyk

The writer is saying that it reminds him of Intel Hyperthreading, and how the utilisation of the CUDA cores has gone up, and the power efficiency has gone up. - but I think it's unlikely that nV marketing is going to spill the beans before any official announcement next week.... so it's just...

For once I hope that Charlie is right, and knows what he's talking about! :lol: Either way, it's going to be soon....

Whoooaa! Think you might be in danger of exceeding the official speculation limit there, buddy! :lol: The forum thought-police will be on you like a ton of bricks if you're not careful! :lol:

No you're arguing from stupidity! :roll: Gee wizz, you don't say? Look, this is a speculation thread. There is absolutely no value in you coming on here saying we don't know what the shader count is, or the die size, therefore we cannot speculate At this stage in the 4-6 week window before...

He's arguing on a speculation thread that we shouldn't speculate about things we don't know about... because that would just be too speculative ... Look anyway, I'm not going to troll here. I think I made it clear what my opinion is about the way AMD & NV are converging on their architectures -...

So, you are supposing that with GCN, the Core takes up a much greater % of the die area than with previous generations? - so, my original point still stands - i.e. with this generation, we're seeing AMD & NV come much closer together architecturally, and the perf/mm^2 advantage that AMD has...

If silent_guy doesn't like Kepler speculation in a Kepler Speculation thread, then he doesn't have to read it ... - perhaps he should start a 'Kepler Known Facts' thread, and a have nice quite time there! :roll:

Well, I'm not claiming that they are anything other than sweeping generalisations, but, OTOH, things like TEX & MC tend to average out, to a first approximation.... particularly in a balanced architecture.... - e.g. bus with is +50%, and transistor count is +62%, so the proportion of the chip...

For me what interesting in that NV & AMD are converging on the same architectures having been divergent for several years, at least since the G80 generation. - so this time round AMD has embraced GPGPU with GCN, and NV has moved away from the hot-clock - so the differences in approach are more...

Let me get this straight, you're saying you don't agree? :lol: