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Why ATI delayed the R600.....
Xocyll wrote:
Does that say the user can't buy a GeForce card? No, it says the user would be more likely to buy a RenderX as it would be cheaper than buying an entire card from the competition. Buy != Use. The article, for example, says nothing about how the Excellon deals with external cards, or how the system could deal with having both external and internal GPU chips. One can easily take the implication that they were speaking of the Excellon as a discrete system of units, and that competitor's system would be more expensive. Now if video cards still used AGP and none of those Excellion motherboards came with an AGP slot, you might have had a point. Sub PCIe x16 for AGP, and you've got it. TheSmokingGnu |
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Why ATI delayed the R600.....
TheSmokingGnu wrote:
Xocyll wrote: Does that say the user can't buy a GeForce card? No, it says the user would be more likely to buy a RenderX as it would be cheaper than buying an entire card from the competition. Buy != Use. The article, for example, says nothing about how the Excellon deals with external cards, or how the system could deal with having both external and internal GPU chips. One can easily take the implication that they were speaking of the Excellon as a discrete system of units, and that competitor's system would be more expensive. Now if video cards still used AGP and none of those Excellion motherboards came with an AGP slot, you might have had a point. Sub PCIe x16 for AGP, and you've got it. The thing is, the PCI Express bus isn't built into the chip, it's built into the north bridge or other glue chip, which with AMD processors attaches to one of the hypertransport channels that is also used for inteprocessor communication in multiprocessor systems. To remove PCI Express x16 they'd have to cripple the hypertransport channels in a major way. -- -- --John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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Why ATI delayed the R600.....
On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 20:12:33 -0400, "J. Clarke"
wrote: TheSmokingGnu wrote: Xocyll wrote: Does that say the user can't buy a GeForce card? No, it says the user would be more likely to buy a RenderX as it would be cheaper than buying an entire card from the competition. Buy != Use. The article, for example, says nothing about how the Excellon deals with external cards, or how the system could deal with having both external and internal GPU chips. One can easily take the implication that they were speaking of the Excellon as a discrete system of units, and that competitor's system would be more expensive. Now if video cards still used AGP and none of those Excellion motherboards came with an AGP slot, you might have had a point. Sub PCIe x16 for AGP, and you've got it. The thing is, the PCI Express bus isn't built into the chip, it's built into the north bridge or other glue chip, which with AMD processors attaches to one of the hypertransport channels that is also used for inteprocessor communication in multiprocessor systems. To remove PCI Express x16 they'd have to cripple the hypertransport channels in a major way. -- -- --John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) er, have you taken the "red pill" yet? See the article :-) John Lewis |
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Why ATI delayed the R600.....
"TheSmokingGnu" wrote in message ... If, say, I purchase an Intel chip now, it's just an Intel chip. It only does the CPU job, and when I buy a motherboard, I'm free to use essentially any other competing product (even the motherboard!) with it. Same thing with existing AMD chips. I can buy that chip and /only/ that chip. Any other component is freely choosable by the consumer. This is a contrived example, as how often do people upgrade their motherboards while keeping the same CPU? The converse is far more likely -- people wanting to upgrade their CPUs without upsetting the rest of the system. Thus, given any motherboard, you are locked into a vendor, be it Intel or AMD. Furthermore, the motherboard has to have the specific kind of socket that your CPU uses, which can vary even within a given brand and model of CPU, so even if you were to buy another board for the same brand, it still might not work. This architecture locks the consumer into a choice of video hardware, and further subjugates them by forcing their upgrade path into, surprise surprise, more of the same. If they wanted to switch mid-year from an ATI setup to an nVidia one, they're SOL, thus proprietary. The only reason why they couldn't switch is if nVidia chose not to make products for that architecture. Up til now, ATI and nVidia were both simply adhering to Intel's AGP and PCIe specs. Now there's competition between two proprietary architectures, neither of which, as far as I can see, is more proprietary than the other. |
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Why ATI delayed the R600.....
*disclaimer against April fool's: even if this report is just a hoax, the
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Why ATI delayed the R600.....
For the ppl who missed it, at the REAL end of the article:
"Disclaimer Please note that the "facts" and questions and answers in the previous pages do not necessarily reflect the personal or professional opinions of anyone at Team ARP. They were created with comic intent in mind." GT |
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