AMD: R8xx Speculation

Because it's an option AMD was lacking versus nV, especially in the workstation market.

 

Who knows,unless AMD ?

Maybe the block is Display Controllers,not controller .

 

I really like eyefinity, despite the stupid name. Though it would be better if dvi/dvi/hdmi was available. Hopefully 3 simultaneous outputs will become the new standard configuration (at least for high-end cards).

 

Well kudos for AMD for following up then.

 

Well, using adapters shouldn't be too much of an hassle, while DP isn't required to support DVI/HDMI, as far as I know every single case with DP on card, the same output supports DVI/HDMI via adapter, too.

 

Would be iFinity better? At least it would be coherent to iSound controller

 

How about:

640 double pumped ALUs + 64 TMUs for Juniper?

Using your Ecxel sheet, it worked quite well under der following assumptions:

- area per ALU: 1,25 bigger than for the RV740 (due to the higher speed of the ALUs)
- still only 8 cluster despite the 64 TMUs
- reducing the size for the "control, setup, interpolation, tessellation etc" from 2 times RV740 to 1,5 times RV740. Eric Demers only said "twice the complexity" not "twice the size".

I don't think this can be true, but at least using your tool I would work.

 

I dunno in contrast it looks to me like 3 outputs would be more useful on low-end cards. Simply because high-end cards are mostly used for gaming where there still isn't that much need for multi-head, but low-end cards are more appropriate for office use where this should come in more handy. And don't forget the existing multi-mon cards where both nvidia and amd simply stick two low-end chips on the same card to be able to offer more outputs, it is not an option to put high-end chips on those.

 

I'm dubious about such high clocking. Also the TUs and ALUs would prolly work at the same clock speed, as they both access the registers.

The best thing it does is show how things like 2560 ALUs aren't really practical

Jawed

 

Did I already mention that a new reference in texture quality is coming towards us soon for all those IQ freaks out there?

 

Wow, like a shining diamond?

 

Music to my ears

 

True Angle independant AF?

 

Don't Nvidia cards already do that? If so it wouldn't really be a new reference in texture quality

 

You couldn't come up with any more boring idea could you? I rarely (if at all) notice angle dependency on 45 degrees. Give me something like better filter kernels for instance and I'll drool forever....

 

There's no such thing in my book as angle independent; only less angle dependent.

 

Is that quality level merely what's mandated by D3D11?

If this is done with single-cycle fp16 TUs then it's going to be costly.

Jawed

 

Actually S3 got the really angle independent done IIRC
http://translate.google.ch/translate?u=http://www.computerbase.de/art ikel%2Fhardware%2Fgrafikkarten%2F2008%2Ftest_s3_ch rome_440_gtx%2F&sl=de&tl=en&hl=de&ie=UTF-8

 

Like adhering to DX11's specs and providing support for 16kx16k textures, thus enabling a "whole new level of texture fidelity" - regardless what your filter does make out of it?

If not: I'd be pleasantly suprised. It'd be about time after the X1K-series's Area-AF.

 

What about "Triple Monitor Support"? They wouldn't even have to explain it anymore. Or is eyefinity more than that?