joeorc said:
right, so AMD and Intel with all their wisdom are also not going on an making Hybrid CPU/GPU chip's in order to compete with Nvidia and ATI yup Gabe was right all right..lol/sarcasm |
First of all, AMD bought ATI some time ago, so they aren't going to compete with themselves. AMD and Intel aren't going to make an Hybrid CPU/GPU chip in order to compete with nVidia. They are doing it because it makes a lot of sense in the low-mid sector, where low cost is mandatory. It makes a lot of sense for laptops, too, to have the CPU and the GPU in the same chip. With smaller technologies, and the excessive power dissipation that a high frequency gives, the CPU manufacturers have to provide something new to keep selling those chips, and an integrated GPU is the new mantra.
About your comment of the heritage of RSX, the own David Kirk from nVidia said that "The two products share the same heritage, the same technology." He even said that RSX was going to be faster, but it was before the final specs were disclosed, and with lower frequencies, the same number of active units, and a 128 bit bus, it's very rare that it could be faster. It's probably a PR stunt.
http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/2005/07/11/nvidia_rsx_interview/2
I don't know where you got the impression that RSX had anything to do with G9x, a Direct3D 10 chip, with an unified shader architecture. Please revise your "facts" before posting misinformation.
