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[yiorgos kapellakis]

kalos alla  tote to link gia customer service giati to exei??/ euxaristo
paidia


On 8/1/06, Sotiris Katsikis <sotirisk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/1/06, yiorgos kapellakis <kapellakis at gmail.com> wrote:
> > to montelo tis kartas einai SAPPHIRE ATI X1600PRO 256MB AGP TV-OUT DVI
> > RETAIL
>
> Now you re talking...
> Twra pou eipes to modelo, boreis na pareis kai thn apadhsh:
> apo edw:
> http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=13758
>
> sth 2h selida tha deis:
>
> The X1600 has 4 ROPs (otherwise known as render operator units), 12
> pixel shaders and 5 vertex shaders. (not 12 vertex pipelines ) Atitool
> is telling you the amount of ROPs available in your card.
>
> The term pixel pipeline is no longer used for the X1x00 series, as
> each ROP can have multiple shader units. Take the X1900 for example,
> it only has 16 ROPs, but it can perform 48 pixel shader operations per
> cycle, making it faster than the 7800GTX's 24 ROPs, 24 pixel shaders
> when it comes to rendering pixel shader intensive games.
>
> Ati chose to put way more pixel shaders in their GPUs when they
> realized future games would be more pixel shader intensive than vertex
> shader intensive. This will change once the R600 with its "unified
> shader" architecture is released, and game programers will be able to
> decide how to put its (rumored) 64 shaders to use with the right
> balance of pixel, vertex and geometry shaders, once DX10 becomes the
> norm.
>
> In terms of raw performance, the X850 (16 ROPs, 16 pixel shaders and 6
> vertex shaders) is waaaay faster than the X1600, it doesn't support
> some newer rendering technologies, but with DX10 cards just around the
> corner, it shouldn't matter that much.
>
>
>
> Opote opws katalavaineis den yparxei kati na ksekleidwseis, einai
> thema arxitektonikhs ths kartas. (padws me ena grhgoro googlarisma
> vrethike h lysh, kati hksere kai h sapphire :P).
>
> Sotiris
>
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