While this is true, R600 was certainly too late to use PCie 2.0. I guess it's possible that a R6x0/RV6x0 refresh part would be on PCIe 2.0, but I wouldn't put too much stock in that idea.
AMD: Beyond R600
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According to this link from DailyTech...
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6451
I don't know if R600 will be PCIe 2.0, but R700 is not supposed to be AMD's first PCIe 2.0 card...
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6451
I don't know if R600 will be PCIe 2.0, but R700 is not supposed to be AMD's first PCIe 2.0 card...
Weren't we calling shens on the slide they're using for info there?
Excuse me?
Wait... I have no idea what "SM5" or "DX11" are or most likely will be, so please enlighten me what both of them consist of (and then I can form my own opinion if they're tied together).
Yes, I anticipate "a SM5" and "a DX11" (note where I put the opening quotation marks) but unless that's the whole point of that comment of yours, I fail to see why we should be talking about the 5s and the 11s in this context.
Silent_Buddha
Legend
Rev, that was in reply to another post where the poster stated that DX 10.1 would be SM 5.0. 
I was just commenting that 10.1 was still SM 4.0 and DX 11 would be the most likely inflection date of SM 5.0. Not however, saying that DX 11 exists or that SM 5.0 exists or that they absolutely positively will be tied together.
Hope that clears things up.
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SB
I was just commenting that 10.1 was still SM 4.0 and DX 11 would be the most likely inflection date of SM 5.0. Not however, saying that DX 11 exists or that SM 5.0 exists or that they absolutely positively will be tied together.
Hope that clears things up.
Regards,
SB
IMHO, PCIe 2.0 will only be of real use to IGP's and Turbocache/Hypermemory schemes, since they depend on main memory up to a certain degree (or fully, in the case of the IGP's).
Since local GPU memory BW is accelerating, and Crossfire/SLI talk is done through dedicated connections, having 5GB/s vs 2.5GB/s of PCIe bandwidth seems irrelevant, since even a x8 connection isn't maxed out by them yet.
Since local GPU memory BW is accelerating, and Crossfire/SLI talk is done through dedicated connections, having 5GB/s vs 2.5GB/s of PCIe bandwidth seems irrelevant, since even a x8 connection isn't maxed out by them yet.
Silent_Buddha
Legend
Well, except that both IHV's appear to be taking advantage of PCIE for Crossfire/SLI. In fact there were some rumors a few months back that even the R600 would do away with Crossfire dongles and do crossfire over PCIE. I'm a little skeptical myself whether PCIE 1.0 or even 2.0 would offer sufficient bandwidth.
Regards,
SB
Regards,
SB
Aerows
Regular
Both good points - particularly about Crossfire/SLI using dedicated connections. I can't see how having more bandwidth to not use would help things.
Would one of the uses of PCI-e 2.0 be to get rid of the need for the dedicated SLI/Crossfire connections possibly? It isn't like having to use an SLI bridge or Crossfire connection internally is a big deal, but it is one less thing to lose before you need it/break/be faulty, etc.
