12-15-2006, 05:53 PM
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Location: cumbria, UK
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Re: 8800gt\gtx g80 speeds\pipes
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Originally Posted by casecutter
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Do you even understand what a CPU bottleneck is?
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yup i do  , i even concede your point that there WILL be bottlenecking, to an extent.
Right, the CPU pushes the data to the cards, which will admittedly become a much bigger workload. however, the unified shaders take RAW data from the cpu, not data that has already been processed, which takes SOME of the workload off the cpu.
ultimately, there will be a rise in processing for the cpu, but no more bottlenecking than there has been in previous generations of hardware, given the speed increase of the c2d architecture.
then again, this is my informed opinion, that is prone to wrongness |
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