NV40 has a new architecture

[rwolf]

I don't know if someone has already mentioned this....

http://www.3dchipset.com/temp/6800.zip


Looks like the NV40 has 16 pipes with 32 shader units.

nVidia is ditching the deep pipline and long work instruction set of NV30 for a hybrid scheme known as SIMD/MIMD.

 

[rwolf]

..the NV40 ups the ante by adding a second shader unit to is pipelines. This means NV40 can run two shader programs on every pixel that passes through the pipeline.

 

[Dave Baumann]

LOL. They don't have a clue.

 

[rwolf]

You mean they are doing a preview of a Nvidia card that they haven't seen with all the information provided by Nvidia and it is wrong?

 

[rwolf]

Wasn't it these guys (MAXIMUMpc) who posted the original NV30 benchmarks that showed the NV30 cleaning the floor with R300.

 

[anaqer]

Wasn't it these guys (MAXIMUMpc) who posted the original NV30 benchmarks that showed the NV30 cleaning the floor with R300.

IIRC that was pctuning. ( Not sure though, must have been a bunch of 'em... )

 

[rwolf]

I think you are correct.

 

[tb]

You mean they are doing a preview of a Nvidia card that they haven't seen with all the information provided by Nvidia and it is wrong?

Seeing information and understanding it are two different things...

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8005

Maybe they have just replaced their two mini fpu's with another full 32 bit one ...

Thomas

 

[John Reynolds]

Why would you name a site that covers graphics chips 3dchipset? Applicable back in the V1/V2 days, but not now.

 

[rwolf]

Two parallel shader operations per pipeline instead of two pixel shader programs per pipeline ...

 

[T2k]

LOL. They don't have a clue.

You should check the whole article. It's real fun.

/me hitting himself and saying: 'why I did not check my incoming mails/newspapers earlier? This good laugh was sitting at the bottom since the secretary brought in afternoon...'

 

[991060]

Not a surprise, we've already seen mini shader ALU in R3XX/NV3X.

 

[nobie]

June availability? Kind of sucks, but not really surprising to me.

 

[StealthHawk]

Wasn't it these guys (MAXIMUMpc) who posted the original NV30 benchmarks that showed the NV30 cleaning the floor with R300.

NV30 did clean the floor with R300 with the settings that MaximumPC used though!

 

[Geeforcer]

Quake 3 without AA and AF? Becaise that's what/how I'd play on my $400 card.

 

[Lezmaka]

Quake 3 without AA and AF? Becaise that's what/how I'd play on my $400 card.

Don't forget that IQ was probably set to Agressive or Very Aggressive or "1 big polygon" Agressive

 

[StealthHawk]

Quake 3 without AA and AF? Becaise that's what/how I'd play on my $400 card.

I never said those were good settings to actually use, but people here seem to be implying that numbers were completely made up or something.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

Quake 3 without AA and AF? Becaise that's what/how I'd play on my $400 card.

I never said those were good settings to actually use, but people here seem to be implying that numbers were completely made up or something.

Got proof that they weren't?

 

[StealthHawk]

Got proof that they weren't?

My eyes

 

[digitalwanderer]

Got proof that they weren't?

My eyes

NDA touche!