First details to KyroII Ultra and KyroIII

[cool]

it's in german but the numbers speak for themselves...
http://www.3dconcept.ch/cgi-bin/show.cgi?show=2438

and here in english...
http://www.extremetech.com/article/0,2299,s%253D201%2526a%253D2529,00.asp

 

[BFG10K]

Nice. Those core-speed boosts should help quite a lot, along with the T&L engine.

But the STG5500's new core will require the increased bandwidth of DDR memory.

Interesting.

 

[vss1980]

Yeah that makes sense the need for DDR.

The TBR ability of the core reduced the bandwidth needed on the memory, but now its the same as when nVidia moved from the TNT architecture to the Geforce, the memory cant keep up.

 

[BFG10K]

I expected that TBR would help more. Still, I guess they can't get SDRAM much faster than 175 MHz, so they're forced to switch to DDR.

 

[Archknight]

Overclock the Kyro2 core gained quite some performance, with the core running at 250Mhz, what would be the performance gained? T&L finally. As long as they have the performance of a pro(the pro at the time of their release) and their low price, this sure is interesting.

 

[jbirney]

<< Nice. Those core-speed boosts should help quite a lot, along with the T&amp;L engine.

But the STG5500's new core will require the increased bandwidth of DDR memory.

Interesting. >>




Naw,

I don't think so. If you look at the efficeny of the card you can see that is in the high 90s. Or look at 32 vrs 16 bit color. There is a difference but its not as wide as the traditional renders. The biggest &quot;bottle neck&quot; here is the number of pixels it can push out. Agreed you can not forget about memory bandwidth need. But playing around with a K2 is showing me that its much more fill rate limted than memory. Thats why the extra pixel processing power that the next gen has should help (note I am not saying DDR will not be worth it, I am saying that memory bandwidth is not the weak link yet).