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Cheez-It




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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Feb 2005 18:31    Post subject: Stagnent technology development?
What is going on? You used to hear of new video cards practically BEFORE the current generation was on the shelves... I haven't heard of a replacement for the current ones (asides from ati's x850 which is NOT new, its just a speed increase with same tech)... and processors? they've been stuck at the same speed for a long time now Twisted Evil I want some new tech!!! wtf? what is going on!
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razor1394
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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Feb 2005 19:06    Post subject:
I can agree on the graphic cards but not on CPU's. Speed is not about everything. It's about the architecture. If cpu makers just increased the clocks everyone would have to use water or even compressor cooling. The new Athlon 64's are pretty fast. The dual core processors are also very close to release both by AMD and Intel.
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Cheez-It




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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Feb 2005 23:13    Post subject:
ahh ok, i guess i've just been slacking in my readings Razz

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razor1394
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PostPosted: Sun, 13th Feb 2005 10:31    Post subject:
Cheez-It wrote:
ahh ok, i guess i've just been slacking in my readings Razz


You can also check the new specs for the ATI R520 chipset:

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24 "Pipelines"
32 Texture Units
96 Arithmetic Logic Units (ALU)
192 Shader Operations per Cycle
700MHz Core
134.4 Billion Shader Operations per Second (at 700MHz)
256-bit 512MB 1.8GHz GDDR3 Memory
57.6 GB/sec Bandwidth (at 1.8GHz)
300-350 Million Transistors
90nm Manufacturing
Shader Model 3.0
ATI HyperMemory
ATI Multi Rendering Technology (AMR)
Launch: Q2 2005
Performance: Over 3x Radeon X800 XT !!! (for single R520)
16x stochastic FSAA
FP32 blending, texturing
Programmable Primitive Processor/Tesselator
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