http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=2492
VR-Zone has been quite reliable in the past, AFAIK ...... but IMO this rumor is likely false...
VR-Zone has been quite reliable in the past, AFAIK ...... but IMO this rumor is likely false...
G80 to have unified shader architechture??!?!
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Yes, but will it go get the pizza after sex?
1ghz
I suppose we're getting in range. . .but I'm thinking that's a bit on the high side, unless the sleight-of-hand is that "the architecture" will go two generations (entirely possible), rather than the first iteration at that speed.
1ghz
I suppose we're getting in range. . .but I'm thinking that's a bit on the high side, unless the sleight-of-hand is that "the architecture" will go two generations (entirely possible), rather than the first iteration at that speed.Megadrive1988
Veteran
G80 = NV50 or NV5X yeah?
G80 to compete with R600. the R600 will have unified shader architecture, one that is refined from the work ATI has done on R500 / C1 / Xenos.
it would make sense that Nvidia's G80 (assuming it is NV5X) has a USA even though it's possible that Nvidia is sticking with a segragated shader architecture.
G80 to compete with R600. the R600 will have unified shader architecture, one that is refined from the work ATI has done on R500 / C1 / Xenos.
it would make sense that Nvidia's G80 (assuming it is NV5X) has a USA even though it's possible that Nvidia is sticking with a segragated shader architecture.
ChrisRay said:
I'm not so sure yet that vr-zone is actually wrong about that one. NVIDIA or more specifically David Kirk were obviously "defending" their design choices for G70/RSX. There's nowhere an indication that NVIDIA will not have a unified shader architecture for =/>H2 2006.
Chalnoth said:
Thank Demirug for digging up patents in the 3dcenter forum:
http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US2005138328&F=0
Ailuros said:
Emh..exactly one month ago it was posted here:
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24278&highlight=dispatch
euan said:
Then why would PS3 be based on G70?
Well here's the interview from Bit-Tech on July 12th that Vr-Zone's article references.
Now, that interview itself doesn't mention G80 whatsoever; so I think though probable, VR-Zone's original headline is just sensationalist. This is how rumors start afterall! Remember to always follow it all the way back to the primary source. 8)
Anyway I think there's a good chance that G80 might be unified in nature, but this VR-Zone article does nothing to add support to the theory.
Now, that interview itself doesn't mention G80 whatsoever; so I think though probable, VR-Zone's original headline is just sensationalist. This is how rumors start afterall! Remember to always follow it all the way back to the primary source. 8)
Anyway I think there's a good chance that G80 might be unified in nature, but this VR-Zone article does nothing to add support to the theory.
I asked DK about unified architectures when I was given my very initial NV40 breifing he argued quite vehemently against them then. He has pretty much been consistently on that path since then, up until fairly recently where be has been making more conciliatory noises about it. Given that DK is working one or two architecture down those types of thoughts are probably about the types of things he's actually working on. Given the recent noises I think its almost certain they will go the unified route at some point, but I personally don't expect it for G80 given the design of this thing is probably in its final stages (i.e. the high level "architecture" choices were set down a long time ago), but possibly for the architecture after - this type of timing would also fit a lot better with the timing for WGF2.0.
TOrangeMonkey
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So the G80 would be non-unified, just another branch from the nv40/G70 tree and the G80 isn't WGF2.0... right?DaveBaumann said: