[geeks] Anybody can borrow me $10k? hehe....

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Tue Nov 19 15:32:31 CST 2002


On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 03:27:45PM -0600, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > And do you REALLY need a 1.5GHz P4 with 128MB of video memory? I doubt 
> > it. 99% of the time 99% of it would be wasted. I know mine is.
> 
> I was just looking at an article on the GeForce FX.  The
> reference card has 1GB of DDR2 memory.

More impressively still, the cards internal datapaths are apparently
32bit floats rather than 8, 10, 12, or 16bit ints.  And I'm hearing
things that sound like it might be possible to extract 32bit floats from
the card before it hits the display.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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