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Originally posted by: videopho
Just a matter of time before somebody hits 1g transistors design with these GPUs.
Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
I'm willing to guess that if R600 is anything akin to R500 (Xenos?), then a lot of those transistors will be on-die cache memory. Doesn't Xenos have 10MB of "cache" memory right in the die? If the 64 shaders of the R600 is true, then I don't see how it could reach 720 million transistors without including that cache count.
Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
I'm willing to guess that if R600 is anything akin to R500 (Xenos?), then a lot of those transistors will be on-die cache memory. Doesn't Xenos have 10MB of "cache" memory right in the die? If the 64 shaders of the R600 is true, then I don't see how it could reach 720 million transistors without including that cache count.
512bit memory controller, AVIVO, a few other things like the ring bus design (they wont throw away this technology for sure), memory controller, ROPs and TMUs, composistion engine, etc
Originally posted by: hardwareking
720 million transistors=how much power consumption?And how much heat?
Thats what concerns me.
Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
I'm willing to guess that if R600 is anything akin to R500 (Xenos?), then a lot of those transistors will be on-die cache memory. Doesn't Xenos have 10MB of "cache" memory right in the die? If the 64 shaders of the R600 is true, then I don't see how it could reach 720 million transistors without including that cache count.
512bit memory controller, AVIVO, a few other things like the ring bus design (they wont throw away this technology for sure), memory controller, ROPs and TMUs, composistion engine, etc
But 64 shaders?
Originally posted by: Wreckage
Originally posted by: hardwareking
720 million transistors=how much power consumption?And how much heat?
Thats what concerns me.
Here is an early shot of the heatsink.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e...r_station_cooling_tower_zootalures.jpg