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Zak
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Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:15 pm Post subject:
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chrisv wrote:
| Quote: | And what would the video-memory bus-width be? 128b? 256b? See the
problem?
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The sheer width is an issue as is the different types of RAM.
But the changing width isn't: put on two DIMM sockets and if the
customer wants to use one that's fine.
However seeing how closely video chip and memory toe together it is
better to place them together on a board.. which is suspiciously like
what we have now.
I also have the feeling that the mainstream video is not making much
progress fill-rate wise; you cannot buy a entry level card and have it
outperform a Ti4200 - which is different from the situation with CPUs.
That said a GPU module would look suspiciously like a video card...
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Dan Koren
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Tue Nov 15, 2005 3:33 pm Post subject:
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"Andy Glew" <andy.glew@intel.com> wrote in message
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Separate graphics cards are for the
bleeding edge market - gamers, etc.
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To say nothing about such irrelevant
pursuits as CAD/CAE, image processing,
graphics, animation, scientific and
medical visualization, financial
modeling, etc...
;-)
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abc
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Tue Nov 15, 2005 3:42 pm Post subject:
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"Dan Koren" <dankoren@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | "Andy Glew" <andy.glew@intel.com> wrote in message
news:peyp4q76db3x.fsf@pxpl2829.amr.corp.intel.com...
Separate graphics cards are for the
bleeding edge market - gamers, etc.
To say nothing about such irrelevant
pursuits as CAD/CAE, image processing,
graphics, animation, scientific and
medical visualization, financial
modeling, etc...
;-)
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They are still niche markets though, and often require different performance
options than games do. |
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Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:03 am Post subject:
Re: GPU sockets are coming |
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On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:33:02 -0800, "Dan Koren" <dankoren@yahoo.com>
sprachen:
| Quote: | To say nothing about such irrelevant
pursuits as CAD/CAE, image processing,
graphics, animation, scientific and
medical visualization, financial
modeling, etc...
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How would one financial-model on a graphics card?
True, medical visualisation stuff does like to use a lot of VR. Tho
most of what I've seen on TV's gouraud shaded anyway. They can get
away with doing that on-cpu, I'm sure. As 3D cards get powerfuller,
they also seem to be shrinking into narrower and more narrow niches as
to what they can do.
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Iain McClatchie
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Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:15 am Post subject:
Re: GPU sockets are coming |
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| Quote: | How would one financial-model on a graphics card?
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The financial models themselves run on the CPU(s). The data
generated can be difficult to understand. 3D visualizations can
make it easier to understand, since a lot of the data is
multidimensional. Consider put and call options, which at any
point in time for a particular commodity exist as prices for a
cross product of strike prices and future dates. If you are
considering derivatives based on relationships between those
prices, it can help to visualize those relationships.
It's the same problem the numerical aerodynamics people had
in the 1990s, which led to them surrounding their Crays with
SGI workstations. |
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chrisv
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Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:15 pm Post subject:
Re: GPU sockets are coming |
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Zak wrote:
| Quote: | chrisv wrote:
And what would the video-memory bus-width be? 128b? 256b? See the
problem?
The sheer width is an issue as is the different types of RAM.
But the changing width isn't: put on two DIMM sockets and if the
customer wants to use one that's fine.
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It's still an issue. Do you build-in the cost of a 256b bus, and then
only use half of it?
| Quote: | However seeing how closely video chip and memory toe together it is
better to place them together on a board.. which is suspiciously like
what we have now.
I also have the feeling that the mainstream video is not making much
progress fill-rate wise; you cannot buy a entry level card and have it
outperform a Ti4200 - which is different from the situation with CPUs.
That said a GPU module would look suspiciously like a video card... |
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