[geeks] New Itanium machines from SGI

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:23:37PM -0700, Chris Byrne wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org 
> > [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of Joshua D Boyd
> > 
> > 
> > SGIs are nice that way.
> > 
> 
> And in so many other ways. 
> 
> > 
> > Programable shaders are definately getting more powerfull.  
> > Now if only
> > they had something better than AGP in between them and the ram.  
> 
> 
> Hear hear. But I don't really think PCI is any better than AGP. It's the
> best thing we've got right now so I guess we'll have to make do. 

Now, I could be wrong, by my understanding is that data going from the
video card to ram by AGP is slightly slower than regular PCI.  And PCI
66/64 is four times faster than regular PCI in both directions.
 
> Honestly I think the next major jump in architecture we're going to see
> is a module that has two or more CPU's, the GPU, Sound, the Memory
> controller, and the IO controller on a single die (or maybe a single
> monobloc with several dies connected in some way) with a(or several)
> HUGE cache(s) for all of them. 

Nvidea seems to be moving this way, except I guess they have 3 chips and
dies, including the AMD chip.
 
-- 
Joshua D. Boyd