vb said:There is a limit. The chip may:
a) render X pixels per clock full-featured, no matter what.
b) render Y pixels, no filtering, no color, no coffee, so on
What is the right answer a or b? I think X<16<=Y.
Ps I have a feeling to many, "In The Know" people are basing 16x1 on the 32x0 thingy. If a NV35 pipe can process 2 zixels, why a more advanced pipe can't process 4? (well, over simplifying things)
madshi said:http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14872
NV40 is 16 pipelines part, sometimes.
If that is true, it sounds like 8x2/16x0 to me.
WaltC said:So, what gives?...
digitalwanderer said:WaltC said:So, what gives?...
I'm not sure Walt, I do know for about 99.99% certaintity that the nV40 is 16x1...everything else from there I ain't too certain of. (Oh, 'cept for the R420 being 12 pipes is starting to hit about 85% certaintity with me...I should know for sure a little later.)
Hyp-X said:duncan36 said:Do people even realize that Nvidia failed at 6x2 with the Nv30?
No, and I don't buy that.
Just think about 6x2 - it can't execute 1.5 quads.
It might be 3 x 2x2 with the 2x2 part executing quads every other cycle.
It would be a stupid design probably more complicated than a 8x2. (2 x 4x2)
Actually executing multiple independent quads was a bold move from ATI with the R300, everything in NV3x is about that nV wasn't ready for a move like that.
Hell they weren't ready for 256 bit bus either - but that was relatively easy to add in a refresh.
Uttar said:For the last time... 16x1/32x0.
And it isn't even in the fucking vote options?! AAAAARGH!
Uttar
Demirug said:PS: Sometimes a pipeline can output more than one pixel per clock.
WaltC said:So, Dig, I take it you flatly disagree with the INQ's latest revelation that nV40 is an 8x1 or 8x2 gpu...?
digitalwanderer said:WaltC said:So, Dig, I take it you flatly disagree with the INQ's latest revelation that nV40 is an 8x1 or 8x2 gpu...?
Yup, I flatly disagree with this Inq story....too many knowledgeable people that I trust are telling me it's 16x1 for me to think any other way.
Exactly, could just be unofficially, official-misinformation.Dean said:You have to remember that the information that they are receiving are leaks by Nvidia. Nvidia also boasted about the NV30+ as having an 8x1 pixel pipeline. So those "In the Know" quotes mean nothing to me right now.
Geeforcer said:Could anyone explain to me why Nvidia would leak 3 contradictory versions of the same event?
Joe DeFuria said:Demirug said:PS: Sometimes a pipeline can output more than one pixel per clock.
Sure...but I think the key stiky point there is sometimes. In other words, under what conditions can said pipeline output more than one pixel per clock?