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MUYA
03-01-04, 07:23 PM
NV definately owes a new AA on NV40 :D Hopefully we will get good AA unit and it will be very very usuable. AF i can do without. AA is a must!!!!!
incurable
03-02-04, 12:36 AM
Originally posted by jbirney
The NV30 is not the first GPU that has been made that was starving for bandwidth. GF2 Ultra for one and there are others. Yes you can optimize all you want but at the end of the day your still gonna to be sort bandwidth. I am sure they have made some improvements. But I can do the math and it does not add up.
Is R300/R350/R360 starved for bandwidth?

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StealthHawk
03-02-04, 03:15 AM
Originally posted by nobie
NV30 seems to be much more bandwidth hungry than R350, who knows what NV40 will be like but I'm hoping improvements have been made.

NV30 suffered performance problems especially when using 4x FSAA, which of course is reliant of bandwidth.

It sure didn't help that NV30 was clocked so high, and yet had much less bandwidth than NV35! It just shows how unbalanced it was due to its 128bit bus.