Nvidia readies Turbo Cache GeForce 6200

[Unknown Soldier]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20110

SOURCES SAID Nvidia will likely splurge out on a spin by introducing a Geforce 6200 with something called Turbo Cache in a week or so.

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[mczak]

Sounds a lot like Sideport/Hypermemory of the Radeon Xpress200 IGP. It's an interesting idea to save costs on low-end cards IMHO. Instead of just using a really dog-slow 64bit local memory, use a 64 (or even 32) bit local memory, and use some of the memory bandwidth of the host system too - so in the end you'd get about the equivalent of a 128bit card but with lower cost.

mczak

 

[Rys]

Looks like there's only two variants of the board initially (you get the hint of three from Fudo's article).

I'd put my money on 32MB and 64MB being the first (and only ) two introduced shortly.

 

[loekf2]

Sounds a lot like Sideport/Hypermemory of the Radeon Xpress200 IGP. It's an interesting idea to save costs on low-end cards IMHO. Instead of just using a really dog-slow 64bit local memory, use a 64 (or even 32) bit local memory, and use some of the memory bandwidth of the host system too - so in the end you'd get about the equivalent of a 128bit card but with lower cost.

mczak

Exactly it's a different name, but the same stuff as ATI is doing.

Optionally a motherboard maker can put some local frame buffer next to the chipset *on* the motherboard, the rest of the frame buffer comes from the main memory.

From the reviews I've seen, the performance hit on a AMD64 system with its embedded memory controller seems to be ... acceptable.