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Quick Techie Question

Umm, I would classify a graphics chip more as an ASIC than as a cpu. I thought that the memory in a video card held frames and textures as opposed to instructions like in a CISC or RISC cpu.

Jeremy806
 
RISC vs CISC is more of a design strategy than anything else

not a certin processor enhancement chip or anything 😉
 
I thought that RISC v. CISC means the relationship between the number of microcode instructions per instruction. By "instructions" I mean, for example, x86 instructions. By microcode instructions I mean the internal instructions within the cpu, for the cpu within the cpu.

CISC would be one extreme, a one to one ratio.

RISC would be the other, many microcode instructions per cpu instruction.

Am I right?

jeremy806

 
Yup, thats pretty much it

so as a design strategy, you design it to have more microcode instructions per cpu instruction.
 
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