More details on IBM’s proposed PPC 970

[Hammer]

More details on the IBM’s future PPC 970 CPU from ArsTechnica.

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Quoting from Arstechnica
Now for some architectural details:

L1 data cache: 32 KB
L1 instruction cache: 64 KB
L2 cache: 512K
Registers:
32 64-bit general purpose registers
32 64-bit floating-point registers
32 128-bit vector registers

[whabang]

dR00L!

[Orgin]

If it was released this year or in first quarter of 2003 then Dr000L indeed. But well, it won't be...

Looks more like a perhelia product to me.

/Björn

[whabang]

Looks more like a perhelia product to me.

Probably. :-(
Not that Parhelia is a bad product...  :-)

[whabang]

then Dr000L indeed

Not Dr000L - It's spelled dR00L, y00 14m3R!  :-D

[Orgin]

Not that Parhelia is a bad product...

Indeed not. Just not very competitive in the surrounding market.

/Björn

[Orgin]

Not Dr000L - It's spelled dR00L, y00 14m3R!

Argh! Sorry!  ;o)

/Björn

[whabang]

Indeed not. Just not very competitive in the surrounding market.

Unfortunately no, however, I'm still waiting for Matrox' big return...

[olegil]

Have any of you guys seen the Parhelia in action? I drooled. Of course, I'm in broadcasting. But still, it's the first time I've seen video out resembling Commodore 1985 picture quality from a PC  :-D

[Elektro]

U have to admit for all the hype Parhelia was stirring it was a big dissapointment.

[seer]

Have any of you guys seen the Parhelia in action?

Use one right now.. Great 2D and 3D card.. Benchmarks mean nothing. Just hope that sometime programmers are going to use EMBM more..

To bad I'm going to buy a house, so the 3 flatscreens I wanted to buy are going to have to wait... :-(

[seer]

U have to admit for all the hype Parhelia was stirring it was a big dissapointment.

Nah, i't just a tad slower the a GeForce4/4400, and the 2D gfx are much better, DVD movies look pretty good here  ;-)

Offcourse the new ATI card kicks everybodies a$$, so for 3D gaming, take your pick.

[olegil]

Hype? Star Wars episode 2 was hyped to death. Parhelia was merely "publically mentioned" in comparison  :-P

[Hammer]

Both Matrox* and nVidia have yet to release their true DirectX 9 Class GPU part.
*Note that Perhelia is not a true DirectX 9, it’s merely a spring board towards that goal.

[Hammer]

Offcourse the new ATI card kicks everybodies a$$, so for 3D gaming, take your pick.

For 3D Application performance, NV25 (Quadro 4 900XGL) still beats* R300 (Radon 9700).
Refer to http://www.xbitlabs.com/video/3dsmax5/

It’s interesting to note that the same NV25 chips (i.e. GF4 vs Q4GL) have different out comes due to minor driver and clock speed differences.