The RV870 Story: AMD Showing up to the Fight
Citiraj:
When I wrote The RV770 Story I was convinced that ATi had embraced a new, refocused approach to GPU design, only to learn that they nearly threw out all of the learnings with the RV870. The Northern Islands GPUs, due out later this year, were surely designed before anyone knew how RV870 would play out. Much less whether or not Fermi/GF100 would be this late.
The past three product generations have been executed extremely well. Regardless of whether you're an AMD, Intel or nVidia fan, you must give credit where it's due. The past couple of years have shown us a dramatic turn around from the graphics group at AMD. To go from the shakiness of the R500 and R600 GPUs to solidly executing on the RV670, 770 and 870 year after year is praiseworthy.
I almost wonder if AMD’s CPU team could learn from the graphics group's execution. I do hope that along with the ATi acquisition came the open mindedness to learn from one another.
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Zanimljivo štivo, lišeno fanatizma kakav se non-stop viđa diljem ovog i sličnih foruma.
Čista tehnička strana priče koja bi se bez problema mogla primijeniti nakon predstavljanja svake CPU i GPU generacije.