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Article #119Re: Multitexture on V4/V5
From: Michiel Stegeman
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 00:00
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Voodoo 4 is just a rehashed voodoo 3 with TBuffer and 32 Bit support. Voodoo 5 is just a Voodoo 4 in SLI mode. Like 64 MB divided over 2 VSA-100: somewhat like 32MB per chip. Read this : http://www.haggle.com/cgi/getitem.cgi?id=202150579 Greetz, Michiel Stegeman ________________________________ T-Buffer ...... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Wai <hwfung@glink.net.hk> wrote in message news:81a71b$qjf$1@unix2.glink.net.hk... > Salim Qadri (sqadri@nortel.xx) wrote: > > : There are 2 texture and 2 pixel pipelines per VSA-100. 2 VSA-100's > : give you 4 texture/pixel pipelines per board. I am not sure why the > : increase from 9 to 14 million when all they added was: > : - 1 pixel pipeline > : - enhanced texture pipeline > : - 32 bit rendering > : - 32 MB support > : - 2048x2048 textures > : - 32 bit texture support > : - AGP 4x + sidebanding > : - caches? (this is possibly the biggest reason for the transistor > : count increase but I'm just speculating) > : - asynchronous core/memory clocks? (speculation) > > There are also FXT1 and S3TC texture decompression which I > think they occupy a lot of spaces. > > Wai >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: feaeb,b04d7da264d0bc06 X-Google-Attributes: gidfeaeb,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,b04d7da264d0bc06 X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public X-Google-Thread: f4bb2,b04d7da264d0bc06 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bb2,public X-Google-Thread: 10a47c,b04d7da264d0bc06 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a47c,public From: "Michiel Stegeman" <stegeman@home.nl> Subject: Re: Multitexture on V4/V5 Date: 1999/11/22 Message-ID: <sK1_3.3249$vV4.126710@news.rdc1.ov.nl.home.com> X-Deja-AN: 551465513 References: <383930cf.8748501@news.freeserve.net> <uh2ogcnmr4r.fsf@bcarhad6.ca.nortel.com> <81a71b$qjf$1@unix2.glink.net.hk> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.nl X-Trace: news.rdc1.ov.nl.home.com 943237144 212.120.112.62 (Mon, 22 Nov 1999 03:19:04 MET) Organization: @Home Network X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 03:19:04 MET Newsgroups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,3dfx.products,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video