Evga 5900se

[mynewrigissick]

how many pipelines does this card have ?

 

[Acanthus]

All NVIDIA cards in the FX series have 4x2. From the 5200 up to the 5950.

 

[mynewrigissick]

so it has 8 pipelines, cuz 4 times 2 it eight, right ?

 

[Pete]

Not quite, A.

5800, 5900, 5950: 4x2/8x0 (the latter is for stencil/z ops, as in the shadows in Doom 3).
5600, 5700: 2x2/4x1(/4x0?)
5200: 2x2(/4x0?)

So your 5900SE has four pipes with two texturing units per pipe. You don't multiply pipelines by textures per pipe to arrive back at pipelines, but you can say that 4x2 (FX 5900) is about equal to 8x1 (Radeon 9800) in heavily dual-textured games. The 5900 can output four dual-textured pixels per clock, while the Radeon can output eight dual-textured pixels every other clock: same difference. The situation changes in games that have more odd-numbered texture layers, or that have more shader ops.

Edit: A nice table with pipes and fillrate. I'm almost certain 5200 is 2x2, though. If you're really curious, you could look into old reviews that have 3DMark fillrate numbers.

 

[mynewrigissick]

o ok

 

[Acanthus]

I am almost positive that even the FX5200 vanilla core is 4x2... the only differences are the enormous varience in memory bandwidth as you go up in model numbers.

 

[modedepe]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
I am almost positive that even the FX5200 vanilla core is 4x2... the only differences are the enormous varience in memory bandwidth as you go up in model numbers.

No, that would be wrong. Anything in the FX series lower than the 5800 is 4x1.

 

[mynewrigissick]

hey does this card overclock anygood ?

 

[Pete]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
I am almost positive that even the FX5200 vanilla core is 4x2... the only differences are the enormous varience in memory bandwidth as you go up in model numbers.

There is no way a budget card (that small) can pack 4x2 along with the hardware for FP32/FP16 and all that other PS2a crap. No way. You don't shave $200 off a video card by using cheaper memory alone. You do it with small, high(er)-yield GPUs and accompanying cheaper (smaller, fewer layers) PCBs.

I think it's 2x2 with only two (if not one) PS2a units.

 

[VIAN]

It's a 2x2, because it is about 300MHz and if it was a 4x2 then it would actually be some good.

 

[nemesismk2]

I think the fx5200 is 4x1

 

[Marsumane]

Originally posted by: nemesismk2
I think the fx5200 is 4x1

The above quote is correct.
In certian instances the 4x2 archetecture of the 5900 acts as an 8x1 card through tight coding methods but in most cases its a 4x2 or 8x0 card.