PowerVR5 to be unveiled within the next month?
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Joe DeFuria
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Damnit! Now you jinxed the whole thing! 
elroy said:
How about Intel ?
They've apparently already licensed some stuff for the mobile/handheld sector:
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11449
Oh, and almost forgot, here's another one that crosses his fingers
Bjorn said:elroy said:
How about Intel ?
They've apparently already licensed some stuff for the mobile/handheld sector:
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11449
Oh, and almost forgot, here's another one that crosses his fingers
I had thought of them, but the rumour is that they are using ATi tech for Grantsdale. So I doubt they would pick it up (though it would be very nice if they did!)
Joe DeFuria
Legend
elroy said:
First I've heard of this...is there a source for this rumor?
I hear whispers about Series 5 in the next month/month and a half... *runs around in circles until he gets dizzy and passes out*
Megadrive1988
Veteran
would be nice to see PowerVR Series 5 GPUs soon.
would be the very first desktop, arcade (NAOMI 3) and perhaps future console(?) full graphics processor with on-board geometry processing / T&L / VS from the PowerVR camp to get released.
Series 4 had on-board T&L / VS but of course it got scrapped....
would be the very first desktop, arcade (NAOMI 3) and perhaps future console(?) full graphics processor with on-board geometry processing / T&L / VS from the PowerVR camp to get released.
Series 4 had on-board T&L / VS but of course it got scrapped....
Nick Spolec
Newcomer
Didn't they already get a license partner in Sega (Sega chose the PowerVR5 for use in their next arcade hardware)?
I mean, it's just arcade hardware, but it gives PVR a market to actually have the PowerVR5 hardware made. Without at least SOMEBODY using it, I think it would just sit on the shelf.
I mean, it's just arcade hardware, but it gives PVR a market to actually have the PowerVR5 hardware made. Without at least SOMEBODY using it, I think it would just sit on the shelf.
The Baron said:I hear whispers about Series 5 in the next month/month and a half... *runs around in circles until he gets dizzy and passes out*
*runs around dizzy and giddy like a little school boy...*
Here's to hoping for a third party to come out of nowhere and steal the thunder. 8)
Kristof said:jvd said:
Heatpipes ?
Yup. Here's one being tested for overclocking:
http://www.nmrfam.wisc.edu/NMRFAM/900/series5.jpg
I know for a fact that there are working PVR PC-chips with 32 pipes.
(OK, that's 32 z-pipes, and it's a few years old.)
BTW, does anyone know how fast eDRAM can be nowadays? And if there's anyone with cached eDRAM, so you can have multiple pages open in the same bank. That's the only thing missing for a realy nice shading TBDR design. (In a way that I think is nice, not saying that there aren't other ways.)
And another thing. Has anyone seen any additions to DX9 where you can say that a rendertarget will be used as a framebuffer-aligned texture for the same frame, and then be discarded? That would be a rather nice thing to have for a high end TBDR.
(OK, that's 32 z-pipes, and it's a few years old.
)BTW, does anyone know how fast eDRAM can be nowadays? And if there's anyone with cached eDRAM, so you can have multiple pages open in the same bank. That's the only thing missing for a realy nice shading TBDR design. (In a way that I think is nice, not saying that there aren't other ways.)
And another thing. Has anyone seen any additions to DX9 where you can say that a rendertarget will be used as a framebuffer-aligned texture for the same frame, and then be discarded? That would be a rather nice thing to have for a high end TBDR.
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