R520 - talk, rumours, speculation; the lot!

Well, not exactly the same since the program's going to be less GPU-limited on a faster GPU, but it still would seem plausible that if one score is correct, the other could also be.

 

It is important if every node should be able to communicate to every other node anytime. In case of this über-bus-ring, the internal bandwidth would not be the limitation for something like that anymore. Just from the top of my head. And if it should be something like that in the first place, which I have no idea of.

 

It's not that CPU limited - adding a second GTX gives a decent boost in 3dmark05.

So you're saying the score could be true, but the reported specs are wrong?

 

I've always wondered about the SLI jump as well, honestly. Word is an Athlon FX gives you a good boost over, say, a 3500+ in a single card configuration. Not sure how the SLI seems to circumvent that. But it's true, the implication would be it's not *that* CPU limited.

Also since VR-Zone and HKEPC worked on that article in HKEPC jointly, I would - if we're going to accept the numbers out of HKEPC - at least feel inclined to accept the pipeline configurations coming out of VR-Zone as well.

 

Which isn't important for current-generation graphics hardware. Communication is quite limited (output from the vertex shader goes to the triangle setup, which goes to the pixel shader, etc.).

 

Maybe HDR+AA?

 

How is that related at all?

 

Isnt 3DMark05 vertex limited more than anything else? I'd say that's where the good boost of having SLI comes in handy. I dont really think 05 is CPU all that much at all, thought it may be a tiny bit.

In the end I think it has little at all matters, even less if it really is vertex limited, I dont see much popularity in vertex shaders, its all about the pixels....

 

Is your enthusiasm rising again Dig?

 

In SLI mode, 7800 GTX are CPU limited and not vertex shader limited in 3DMark05 - ask ChrisRay, as he's done some tests to verify this where he disabled various quads and VS pipes.

 

You're not taking what I said correctly. I know its CPU limited to a point, but I have also heard a lot that 3DMark05 is heavily vertex limited, and adding another 7800GTX would logically increase the speed? If a single 7800GTX was already CPU limited in 05 then I'd expect the gains to be much less when moving to SLI.

 

Yes it's heavily vertex limited for single card systems, but as I said for a 7800GTX SLI setup it's not.

 

Why is anyone continuing to link to anything from VR-Zone on this subject?

 

Probably because people don't want to read 160 odd pages of stuff! Whadda think boss - time for a quick summary and a lock?

 

I think it's because they've been dealing with actual samples - if only through HKEPC - which certainly raises their credibility in my mind. I mean if there's some definitive reason why we shouldn't be linking to them, by all means don't hold back.

 

How on earth do I make it more obvious without actually meeting each of you in person and hitting to in the face with a frying pan before and after actually saying it?

 

Uhmmm that I would like to see LOL

 

bwahaha!!