HOME Have you guys heard about the video card with 1 gigabyte of ram??? I'd paste the link but i cant find it!!!!!!!
Have you guys heard about the video card with 1 gigabyte of ram?
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because its a load of bollox and 5 yrs or more away
ffs, even the geforce 4 wont have more than 128 megs.
Well it was a smaller name company with a set release for a year(i think......). If i find the link ill put it up in here
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Ex-RoNiN @ Jan. 17 2002,04:15)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">because its a load of bollox and 5 yrs or more away
ffs, even the geforce 4 wont have more than 128 megs.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
You are thinking in terms of consumer-level boards, not professional-use and workstations. Silicon Graphics SGI 540 Cobalt workstations have up to 1.9GB of video memory.
hmmmmmm not sure, but maybe
I think it will be a long time before we see a board with a gig of memory.. because insted we will see cards with VERY VERY VERY fast memory like the QDR stuff being developed.(quadrupal data rate) that runs at 2ns..
in actuallity todays cards that use DDR have are the same as a card with twice as much SDR ram.. like the GF2 ultra DDRRAM.. its like it had 128mb of SDRRAM.
then again..
ya never know
Mr. Frag - isn't that shared memory, though?
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (OBiJuan @ Jan. 17 2002,07:56)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Mr. Frag - isn't that shared memory, though?[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Yes, the use of shared frame buffers are a common architecture for UNIX workstations.
Still, this is memory set aside for display lists, drawing surfaces, textures etc.
Yeah, it's just that in Windoze, sharing RAM with your video card means you are taking away from memory. SO, an equivalent system would be one with 2 Gig SDRAM and 1.9 GB of it is shared with video, leaving a system with only 100 MB of RAM. ALso, accessing that shared RAM is slower than accessing dedicated RAM chips on the video card. Thats intel systems though. ARe the unix architecture machines different?
Personally, I don't believe we are too far from video cards with dedicated 512MB RAM.
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (OBiJuan @ Jan. 17 2002,08:10)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Yeah, it's just that in Windoze, sharing RAM with your video card means you are taking away from memory. ***SO, an equivalent system would be one with 2 Gig SDRAM and 1.9 GB of it is shared with video, leaving a system with only 100 MB of RAM. ***ALso, accessing that shared RAM is slower than accessing dedicated RAM chips on the video card. ***Thats intel systems though. ***ARe the unix architecture machines different?
Personally, I don't believe we are too far from video cards with dedicated 512MB RAM.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Some SGI systems running UNIX are based on Intel Pentium processors, and have architectures similar to our PCs.
Other workstation products have a very different design with extremely high-speed buses and memory -- they generally blow the pants off PC-based systems for anything that is graphics intensive.
I also totally agree that memory sizes on our graphics cards will grow quickly, which will only be accelerated by the fact that all major graphics chip designers are working on moving beyond 32-bit color. When that happens, frame sizes increase, as well as texture sizes.
Five years from now, we'll be laughing at the NV15/NV20 and R200/R300 chipsets...
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