PowerVR Interview for SGX/USSE(tm)
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There's some interesting information there, thank you.Ailuros said:
A couple of questions I'd like to have asked:
- Of what is SGX an accronym? Earlier products were obvious - PCX for PC, ARX for arcade, CLX for console and MBX for mobile.
- Sega Sammy Naomi 3 - Was PowerVR S5 unable to match the performance of NVidia's desktop GPUs, if so why, and what is IMG doing about it?
- Can we expect future high end arcade machines from Sega Sammy to use PowerVR?
- Is MBX Pro still on offer? Are there any licencees of it?
amk said:
1. shader graphics ?
2. SEGA S5 != Serie 5
3. ask Sega sammy
4. see www.powervr.com ; what is MBX pro?
amk said:
Don't shoot me if I should end up being wrong, but I'll try....
As the bigger cat already said, something with "shaders" probably.
I don't think so. Rumour mill might be accurate in this instance.
I don't see it anywhere on their sites anymore. It could be that it was a bit too fast and had too high power requirements for today's demands. Since there were rumours about a 90nm MBX@200MHz, if that should be true it's plenty for a high end PDA/handheld gaming device.
If SEGA hints on insufficient power then it might very well be that it was actually the case. "That" S5 was slated according to my understanding for late 2003/early 2004 at best. You get significant performance increases within half a year in the 3D market.
Eurasia is according to my understanding just a family name to which SGX also belongs to. A family of unified shader cores which all belong to the Series5 technological family.
That 'yes' on Q16 is rather thin gruel to get overly excited about given all the caveats in the question itself.
But, y'know, it's nice to have them about as a potential competitor with experience and a base to work from. Even without an actual product in the pc space they are arguably "#3", in the sense that if the big two stumble into serious technical roadblocks they could pop up credibly into the high-end, I think, more quickly than some others.
But, y'know, it's nice to have them about as a potential competitor with experience and a base to work from. Even without an actual product in the pc space they are arguably "#3", in the sense that if the big two stumble into serious technical roadblocks they could pop up credibly into the high-end, I think, more quickly than some others.
that water demo of theirs looks remarkably similar to the one i made last year. That was somewhat unexpected.
IF they do come back into the add on market scene it be great news . Thier mbx and now sgx tech is some great stuff and if they can make good igp products for intel use and then add in boards with ati and nvidia performance we'd be in good shape and most likely see cheaper boards coming out instead of more expensive ones
http://www.khronos.org/devu/library...on_-_Porting_Content_to_OpenGL_ES_-_Oct05.ppt
Austin Conference presentation. For those it won't open, here's the according reader from M$ to read it:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...27-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&displaylang=en
Austin Conference presentation. For those it won't open, here's the according reader from M$ to read it:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...27-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&displaylang=en
IEEE 32 bit floating point internal accuracy on SGX. Not unexpected.Ailuros said:http://www.khronos.org/devu/library/austin2005/Imagination_-_Porting_Content_t
Austin Conference presentation.
