Not to be a butthole, but Dave please throw us a bone.
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Here, chew on this some more:
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/xbox360-1.ars
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/xbox360-2.ars?16177
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/xbox360-1.ars
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/xbox360-2.ars?16177
As has most likely been discussed in another thread, Hannibal's articles on the matter are kinda full of crap. Comparing the XBox360's cores to PPEs... Having no clue how physics/AI/etc. can work (that is, it's not because some methods are branch-hungry that all are, and some most definitively aren't - whether they are the easiest to implement is another thing entirely)
I couldn't see any obvious problems with his analyses of the R500 but then again I stopped halfway through because his interpretation felt a bit too original to my liking. Implying Dave's work won't be a good order of magnitude or two better seems heretic to me
But yeah, give Dave time, for all you know he might not be authorized or able to post it yet. And such a different architecture needs a pretty long article to be explained properly, too.
Uttar
I couldn't see any obvious problems with his analyses of the R500 but then again I stopped halfway through because his interpretation felt a bit too original to my liking. Implying Dave's work won't be a good order of magnitude or two better seems heretic to me
But yeah, give Dave time, for all you know he might not be authorized or able to post it yet. And such a different architecture needs a pretty long article to be explained properly, too.
Uttar
Uh... huh-huh... You thaid "bone."
cthellis, you said it too
Really, give Dave a break. He had to travel to E3, get bombed by our questions, mod the forum, etc... I cannot wait to get the scoop on RSX and Xenos and I am CERTAIN Dave's Xenos article is going to be very insightful. But give him time
Good things come to those who wait... and if you tick him off too much he may make us wait longer and then we will all be VERY mad at YOU!
Really, give Dave a break. He had to travel to E3, get bombed by our questions, mod the forum, etc... I cannot wait to get the scoop on RSX and Xenos and I am CERTAIN Dave's Xenos article is going to be very insightful. But give him time
Good things come to those who wait... and if you tick him off too much he may make us wait longer and then we will all be VERY mad at YOU!
Typi... wait... is this a trick question?jvd said:
Thanks for the advice. I would rather being reading something that makes since and that's backed up with facts not conjecture.Titanio said:ralexand said:
Looking to read something more in line with your own views?
Anyway, I'm sure Dave's article will be available as soon as it's done.
The article is done, however its currently back with ATI to discuss what I can and can't actually publish.
19 A4 pages in Word (Veranda 9pt). I suspect that will go down fairly significantly. The areas that I'm most concerned about them being concerned about is how the shaders handle latency operations and the detail of how the threading is handled - we went into some reasonable detail there and as this is next gen stuff its still quite sensitive. Hopefully what isn't in there initially we'll be able to release at a later date.
Bear in mind that I had meetings with Bob at E3, like everyone else, however Bob is a bit more of a hands off VP and he realised that I'd want to go into greater detail than he knew offhand. For this reason I had a conference call with two of the primary architects, but their job is not to be a PR filter so I agrred to let Bob and the PR guys a look before publishing.
Bear in mind that I had meetings with Bob at E3, like everyone else, however Bob is a bit more of a hands off VP and he realised that I'd want to go into greater detail than he knew offhand. For this reason I had a conference call with two of the primary architects, but their job is not to be a PR filter so I agrred to let Bob and the PR guys a look before publishing.
He said the B word...
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