CineFX NV30 Inside
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 09/03/2003 03:47 PM [ Print | 1 comment(s) ] · 1373 views
3Dcenter have thrown up a new article called CineFX NV30 Inside! which provides us with the most detailed look at the inner workings of Nvidia's NV30 and NV35's graphics cards! Nvidia has closely guarded the details of its CineFX architecture! Here's a snip.
Since the release of NV30 with it's new CineFX pixel engine people have been wondering about its internal structure. The developer of the chip, nVidia, has been reluctant to answer questions about internal details in the past, seeking refuge in well-sounding phrases carrying only small bits of information.
Even the architecture specific OpenGL API Extensions nVidia presented for programming the CineFX engine could not shed a light on those details. Therefore many people tried to lift the veil of mystery, equipped with coarse information and several theoretical benchmarks taken from the real object. The author of this article has been amongst those people, too. But with regard to these efforts, one source of information has been almost completely ignored. It is easily understandable that noone looked there because in the past virtually no information on brand new chips has been found there.
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Since the release of NV30 with it's new CineFX pixel engine people have been wondering about its internal structure. The developer of the chip, nVidia, has been reluctant to answer questions about internal details in the past, seeking refuge in well-sounding phrases carrying only small bits of information.
Even the architecture specific OpenGL API Extensions nVidia presented for programming the CineFX engine could not shed a light on those details. Therefore many people tried to lift the veil of mystery, equipped with coarse information and several theoretical benchmarks taken from the real object. The author of this article has been amongst those people, too. But with regard to these efforts, one source of information has been almost completely ignored. It is easily understandable that noone looked there because in the past virtually no information on brand new chips has been found there.
For More Info Warp2 ..... 3Dcenter
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Phantom69 Unregistered |
#46873 Posted on: 09/03/2003 04:21 PM
Very interesting article. Helps to explain why Nvidia might be so insistent on replacing shaders with their own versions. P69 |
