NVIDIA confirms Next-Gen close to 1TFlop in 4Q07

[Jawed]

Thanks Mike, that's great. That'll keep me busy for a while!

There's an admittedly vague die picture for those who like pretty pix.

Jawed

 

[3dilettante]

I'm kind of confused as to why GPU makers insist on die shots where the innards are obscured by the pinout. Don't they use the same kind of packaging scheme?

CPU makers seem to have no issue with showing higher-res and more clear die shots. They sometimes even go out of their way to draw borders around functional units.

 

[Jawed]

Xenos and R520 die shots are comparatively clear...

Jawed

 

[3dilettante]

I haven't seen any hi-res die shots of those cores. I haven't looked too hard for R520 shots, but I don't recall seeing a good pic of Xenos either.

Is there a presentation or article I missed?

 

[Jawed]

There's nothing hi-res I'm afraid. The R520 review here has a die shot, I believe. Not available right now.

Xenos die shot is out there somewhere, can't think where. Mostly I have these things on disk, not URLs (as the latter have a habit of disappearing)...

Jawed

 

[BrynS]

Apologies for continuing the OT, but P.29 from the Stanford presentation:

What comes next?
[...]
-Tons of tuning for current architecture!
[...]

 

[nAo]

Not really surprising, it holds for any new architecture