Why not put the ROPs on the monitor?

[Joseph F]

I woke up this morning and had a brainstorm. Why not put the ROPs on the monitor?
You always hear about graphics cards not having enough ROPs, and based on my very basic understanding of them, you don't need as many ROPs at lower resolutions.
So, why not put them on the monitor so you only have as many as you need?
Would it be a good idea to have the monitor do the final rendering stage?
Would Infiniband provide enough bandwidth for this?

 

[BFG10K]

I woke up this morning and had a brainstorm. Why not put the ROPs on the monitor?

That’s like asking “why not put CPU caches onto an SSD?” Maybe also have system RAM running off an external box connected by USB?

So, why not put them on the monitor so you only have as many as you need?

As many as you need for what? Pixels? What about AA?

Also, are the ROPS enough for a GTX580 or for a 7300GT? What if my graphics card front end improves and exceeds the monitor’s target? It means I have to buy a “faster” monitor every time I buy a faster graphics card.

Do you really want to make the monitor start bottlenecking your graphics pipeline as well?

Would it be a good idea to have the monitor do the final rendering stage?
Would Infiniband provide enough bandwidth for this?

Do you think a 1 meter monitor cable will have the same bandwidth and latency that a hardwired on-die GPU connector to internal caches and VRAM has?

Do you think an average monitor is going to render the graphics back-end faster than a GPU that was specifically designed to integrate this into the rendering pipeline, as fast as possible?

Also, how much do you think a monitor like this would cost? Who’s going implement drivers for each one? Who’s going to define an API that splits the workload across the GPU and the monitor? Are you also going to put fans on these monitors?

 

[Anarchist420]

You can't put ROPs on the monitor.

 

[notty22]

I had a epiphany about Darth Vader and Star Wars one afternoon, it was my day off.
I decided it was better never to tell anyone about that , lol Just playing.

 

[Homeles]

You can't put ROPs on the monitor.

You could... have fun with the latency though.

 

[Haserath]

I just overclocked my monitor the other day and got 10 more FPS!

The more powerful the graphics card, the more ROPs the card will need.

 

[Chiropteran]

I don't think you should put rope on the monitor because my old CRT monitors got really warm sometimes, an inflammable rope could be a big fire risk. And those new LCD monitors, you can't put anything on them because the top is too thin.

 

[Skurge]

I don't think you should put rope on the monitor because my old CRT monitors got really warm sometimes, an inflammable rope could be a big fire risk. And those new LCD monitors, you can't put anything on them because the top is too thin.

LOL.

 

[miji]