AMD and Nvidia have been using various forms of compression for years. But both are having to deal with a situation where GDDR5 is essentially stalled and the obvious solution is to be more efficient with BW. That doesn't mean they're actually sharing IP.
So they still exist, people who think there'll ever be 20nm GPUs.
Apple is using 20nm for the iPhones. That has 2 implications:
- 20nm is ready for very large volume.
- very large volume eaten by Apple.
If Nvidia and AMD are still releasing 28nm today, it will be a year before you see a...
GM204-GK104: 32% difference in die size.
285-265: 65% difference in die size.
After the dust settles and gm200 take the top spot, gm204 will take over the gk104 market segment. 285 and 265 play in different leagues.
Can we just agree that 285 not performing well on Mantle is a big fail for AMD? If it's a problem with the application, then it raises some major concerns about game devs having to target individual chips. If it's a driver issue, then AMD was insane to not make Mantle a priority for the launch...
If a HW bridge of a slave SLI board feeds straight into the display controller of the master SLI board, the only BW required is the BW needed to send over an image. This would be a simple back-pressured operation: slave GPU indicates that there is data available, master GPU indicates that a...
It's not illegal to go to a party of company A wearing a t-shirt of company B.
Hell, my colleague comes to work in a jacket with the logo of our biggest company, because his wife happens to work there.
What is better? A dedicated high-speed interface that's only used to transfer the final image, or a shared bus that's also used to feed the GPU with data?
The biggest benefit of not needing bridge, is that you don't need a bridge. :big grin:
Fundamentally, this is no reason why a bridgeless...
Exactly right.
Another one is support for Nvidia specific features. A very nice recently announced example is this one:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/adobe-illustrator-cc.html
Or simply something like this: "There are a few AMD fans in his audience who can't wait to get their hands on a GTX980. Why don't we give them all a round of applause for finally seeing the light!"
The possibilities are endless: never go against a professional master of ceremony.
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