On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 08:42, Alex Deucher wrote: > I don't know about that. I can forsee IGP becoming _the_ standard > method for video. Look at sgi... all of their video systems use > system memory, once you have a high speed video<->memory bus in place, > I see video cards simply becoming just a GPU rather than a whole card. > You'll never have to worry about having enough videoram, the system > will just use what it needs. need better performance, swap in a better > GPU. Perhaps chipset makers will include some basic GPU logic (akin to > current IGP chipsets) that will run if no GPU is installed.
You are more likely to see baseline graphics go that way, but high-end graphics won't be there for awhile yet. Right now, memory bandwidth looks like this: AMD Athlon 64 3.2GB/s AMD Opteron/ Athlon 64 FX 6.4GB/s Intel i875 (Canterwood) 6.4GB/s ATI Radeon 9800XT 23.4GB/s nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra 35.4GB/s Since PC graphics are strongly influenced by gaming, there is no way an IGP will ever perform like a discrete card until PC memory busses get significantly faster (4-6x) and until then high end GPUs will be around, hanging off ever faster peripheral busses. -- Paul J.Y. Lahaie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
