29.03.2004 |
Interessante
ATi GDC 2004 Präsentation
Update:
Leider wurde die Folie entfernt, zum Glück gibts hier
nen Mirror...
Hier
gibt's eine interessante Präsentation, welche einige Details zu
kommenden ATi Produkten etc. aufzeigt:
- X-box
2, wird so nicht heißen?
- "Be careful not to
mention Xbox 2 – just let everyone know that‘s what you mean"
- Shader
Model 3.0
- It’s
generally agreed that SM3.0 requires a move to 32 bit floats (some
still think it’s not)
- Although
the spec does not require support for blend and fog into float surfaces
you may expect this to be available on much hardware - Blend etc will
be on NV40 and on our own SM3.0 parts
- Steer
people away from flow control in ps3.0 because we expect it to hurt
badly. [Also it’s the main extra feature on NV40 vs R420 so let’s
discourage people from using it until R5xx shows up with decent
performance...]
- "DirectX
Next"
- Geometry
generation in the VPU (If the geometry
shader is “done right” it’s part of the vector processor pool – and
therefore can have a vertex shader before it – and after it! Which is
useful...)
- Support
for virtual memory (Will reduce the pressure to move beyond 512MB but
we’ll still head in that direction...Mention that you expect to see a
512MB board in the consumer space this year. Don’t say that it’ll be
R420 based!)
- Is
still being decided by Microsoft
- Will
be for the next OS only
- Expect
this circa early 2006
- Faster
small batch performance is a very high priority, which implies a new
driver model
- Will
last for two or more years (DX9 lasts from Q4 2002 until the next OS)
- What
gets built into Longhorn will be the basis for their next games.
That’s games - plural. DX Next will last at least as long as DX9
(almost 4 years)
- Shader
Model 4.0
- Is that each of the different
4.0 shaders will use the same syntax and feature set
- This allows us to get around
the major drawback of hardwired stream processors – fixed resources.
- A pool of vector units, each at
least 4 units wide (x, y, z, w or rgba).
- It’s not really the driver
which allocates resources – it’s innate to the hardware.
- The hardware may reconfigure
its-self part way through a large triangle to make use of the spare
compute power.
- CPU vs. VPU
- People
smile when they see this – because they think we‘re converging with the
CPU guys
- look
at the Differences:
- Cache
Sizes - CPU = huge
- Number
of Pipeline Stages - VPU = long
- Cache
Interaction - VPU = none
- Clock
Speed - CPU = fast
- Generality
- VPU tends not to read what it writes
- Vector
oriented - VPU is fundamentally 4D
- Number
types - CPU is more flexible, supporting integers and floats easily
- Braching
– CPUs are great at predictable braching. We don‘t like any branching.
- Also
mention that our VPUs are 5D. The vertex units can paralellise a 4D op
with a 1D op – giving 5 paralell results! [NV can‘t do this!]
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26.03.2004 |
GDC
2004
GameSpy haben einige
interessante Artikel von der GDC 2004 online.
Serious
Sam 2 GDC 2004 - Movie
Hier
der Link zu einem Artikel
und hier das Movie.
NVIDIA's
GDC 2004 Präsentationen - Update
Hier
gibts die neuen Präsentationen...
ATi's
GDC 2004 Präsentationen - Update
Hier
gibts ATi's Präsentationen..
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24.03.2004 |
NVIDIA's
GDC 2004 Präsentationen und SDK Updates
Hier
gibts die neuen Präsentationen und hier das neue SDK,
welches jedoch noch keinen HLSL 3.0 Shader unterstützt...
ATi's
GDC 2004 Präsentationen
Hier
gibts ATi's Präsentationen von der GDC 2004.
GDC
2004 Bericht
GameDev.net
haben die erste Hälfte ihres GDC 2004 Artikels online.
CeBit
2004
Beyond3D, 3DCenter,
withinGames(1,
2,
3,
4,
5)
und X-bit labs(1,
2,
3)
haben die interessantesten CeBit 2004 Artikel abgeliefert.
Interview
mit ATi's Terry Makedon (aka. "catalyst maker")
NordicHardware
haben ein lesenswertes Interview online.
Neues
von PowerVR
Hier
mal etwas von PowerVR, welche auch auf der GDC 2004 sind...
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19.03.2004 |
SEGA
lizensiert PowerVR Serie 5 ?
Gut
vorstellbar, dass PowerVR
bald die Serie 5 für den PC vorstellen wird...
NV4x
und R42x
Hiert
die ersten Bilder einer R42x Karte
und ein paar NV4x Infos vom Inquirer enn e
Next-Gen
4xFSAA + 4xAF ?
Urteilt
selbst...
UnrealEngine3
Interview
HomeLan Fed
haben ein interessantes Interview mit Tim Sweeney online.
NVIDIA's
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra vs. ATi's Radeon 9800 XT
3DCenter
haben rechtzeitig ein Review online, bevor neue High-End Karten auf den
Markt kommen...
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18.03.2004 |
S3
kündigt GammaChrome VPU's an
S3
will mit den GammaChrome VPU's eine PCI Express Lösung anbieten,
welche im Q3/04 erhältlich sein sollen.
NVIDIA's NV40 am 13. April 2004 ?
X-bit
labs sind jedenfalls der Meinung...
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17.03.2004 |
NVIDIA
vs. ATi - Von High-End bis Low-End
X-bit
labs haben fast alle Versionen der Radeon und GeForce FX mit
aktuellen Spielen getestet. Zusätzlich wurden noch
Übertaktungsversuche unternommen.
XGI's
Volari V3XT
XGi
stellt mit dem V3XT einen Low-Cost DirectX 9.0 VPU vor.
Matrox
veröffentlicht beta DirectX 9.0 Treiber
Die
Treiber gibt's direkt bei Matrox.
Notes and known
issues:
- This is a BETA (unsupported) driver release for Matrox
Parhelia 128MB/256MB (AGP), Matrox Parhelia 256MB (PCI), Millennium
P650 and Millennium P750 customers wanting to run recent DX9 games.
- This driver is a DX8.1 driver compiled with DX9 DDK in order to run
on new games that support stream offset functionality. This is an
unsupported final driver, however you may discuss this driver on the
Matrox technical support forums with fellow clients.
- Please uninstall your current drivers using Microsoft Add/Remove
Programs before installing the new drivers. Do not uninstall your
current drivers if you have Matrox RT2500, Matrox DigiSuite or Matrox
Imaging products installed in your system.
PoV
GeForce FX 5500 Review
Guru3D haben
sich die GeForce FX 5500 angesehen.
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16.03.2004 |
NVIDIA's
NV40 mit 16 "Pipelines" ?
Bleibt nur noch
zu klären, was man mit Pipeline eigentlich meint...
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15.03.2004 |
ViewPerf
7 - Benchmarklüge?
3DCHIPS
haben zumindest im 3D-Studio MAX Teil von ViewPerf 7 merkwürdige
Resultate im Vergleich zum echten 3D-Studio MAX...
S3's
DeltaChrome S8 vs. XGI's Volari V8
VTR-Hardware
haben einen interessanten Vergleich online.
ATi's
R420
The Inquirer
haben neue Details zum R420...
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10.03.2004 |
S3
DeltaChrome S8 Reviews
The
Tech Report, Hot
Hardware und Anandtech
haben sich die High-End Version des DeltaChrome angesehen.
Einführung
in PCI Express
Toms
Hardware haben eine kleine Einführung online.
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08.03.2004 |
Das
Floating-Point-Format im Detail
3DCenter
beschäftigen sich in einem mehrteiligen
Artikel mit den Fließkommaformaten der Pixel Shader.
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05.03.2004 |
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