From: Rogelio S. <ro...@sm...> - 2004-10-25 08:59:43
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On 2004-10-25 15:11:00 +0800 Vladimir Dergachev <vo...@mi...> wrote: [snipped...] >> I see. Thats a good idea too. We just have to look for a >> company willing to >> do that. I have long been convinced that designing the >> hardware like this >> is the only way to go. > > Just for fun here are some numbers: > > Card BandWidth FillRate Triangles Ops budget > for 1GFLOP DSP > GB/s Gpixel/s Mtriangle/s > ops/pixel > Radeon 7500 5.3 0.5 62.5 2 > Radeon 9000 Pro 16 1.0 62.5 1 > Radeon X800 XT 18.4 8.3 520.0 0.12 > > Note that 1 GFLOP DSP is like Pentium III-1000mhz.. Not quite, > but similar. > > The technology is getting there (for example 14.4 GFLOP board > from bittware: > http://www.bittware.com/products/PCI/t2pc/t2pc_desc.stm ) but > they don't even > quote price for such things. > Thanks for the info. This is interesting. I think i will go for a pci-x motherboard. -- Blood is thicker then water... And much tastier John Davidorff Pell |