NVIDIA x16 SLI; Far Ahead of Time
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 08/11/2005 12:13 PM [ Print | 3 comment(s) ] · 1035 views
Then Intel came out, yet again, and informed us that AGP was passé and we needed something a lot faster to keep up with future needs. The technology was called PCI Express (PCIe), which was revolutionary because not only did it exclude dedicated bus to the graphics cards, but it was also applicable across the entire motherboard, thereby replacing the archaic PCI technology.
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Dark_Biene Unregistered |
#61938 Posted on: 08/11/2005 01:11 PM
yep...that´s the point: "Now let’s say, we double the lane, or even quadruple it with data transfer rate to 8GB/s – what’s the performance result? Nothing. You will not see any difference whatsoever in either speed (frame rate) or graphics quality because the software can’t allocate the excessive amount of bandwidth. It’s not optimized to work with more than 2GB/s of data throughout the entire operation. What I’m trying to get at is that no matter what we do right now in terms of increasing the speed and bandwidth of the hardware, it’s completely wasted unless developers start writing software that can work with more bandwidth." Thanx :-) |
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BetrayerX Unregistered |
#61939 Posted on: 08/11/2005 02:02 PM
Hehe, I've been saying that since before the technology came out. It's quite common on the first generation of any new technologies. Only after a while when the technology matures and developers get to know it well is when we start to see real performance advantages. As it is today, you can see that any benchmark around where they test an AGP card vs their PCI-Ex counterpart, the performance delta is completely negligible. As it is now, the only real benefit is the Energy supply to the hardware, and again it's debatible since the latest cards have been as efficient or even more than the older ones (7800 consumes less power than 6800....X8x0 is very close too...no matter if its PCI or AGP) It'll probably be another 6-12 months before we will really start to see a difference. |
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Ihmemies Unregistered |
#61947 Posted on: 08/12/2005 11:02 AM
But you can't get G70 cards to AGP... so... PCIe was the only option for me  |
