New Memory Interface for R5x0...

[Tim Murray]

maybe Kaleidoscope refers to stochastic (or pseudo-stochastic, or whatever) antialiasing, which is made possible by a ridiculous amount of memory bandwidth. *enters stochastic-antialiasing-conjecture-induced coma*

mix and match SLI makes absolutely no sense. it's such a niche feature that it's just kinda silly.

 

[Dave Baumann]

Not really very important for a chipset.

 

[Pete]

Heh, I didn't realize AA was so important as to name a discrete GPU after it, let alone an IGP.

 

[Tim Murray]

Heh, I didn't realize AA was so important as to name a discrete GPU after it, let alone an IGP.

Stochastic AA is more important than everything. (stochastic AA has replaced Series 5 as my drool-thing of choice. oh, Series 5. I'll miss you.)

 

[John Reynolds]

Stochastic AA is more important than everything. (stochastic AA has replaced Series 5 as my drool-thing of choice. oh, Series 5. I'll miss you.)

And you'll be waiting for it just as long as you did Series 5.

 

[Dave Baumann]

The answer to Tims wet dreams

 

[Tim Murray]

The answer to Tims wet dreams

So mean, Dave. So mean. But I did wake my roommate up from the laughing.

... maybe I should get into mechanical engineering, cause then I could use those suckers... then again, I probably could with molecular biology, too. decisions. (no, I'm not actually going to base my major of choice on which field would give me the most access to stochastic antialiasing. at least, not yet. give it a semester)

 

[loekf2]

The answer to Tims wet dreams

A sign of what's to come with ATI's R5xx ?

512-bits GDDR3 interface... supporting up to 512 MB on-board (= PCB) DRAM

Virtual memory addressing up to 256 GB... in this case the on-board memory behaves like a level-2 cache..

Nice ;-))

 

[Ailuros]

512-bits GDDR3 interface

I think Wavey was actually pointing at Superscene MSAA instead. Apart from that I live under the impression that Realizm=2*256.

Oh and by the way Realizm can have up to 640MB ram (including 128MB DirectBurst memory).

 

[Charmaka]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/17/ati_hypermemory/

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