ATI Demonstrates World's First PCI-Express VPU

SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
edited September 2003 in Science & Tech
ATI Demonstrates World's First PCI-Express VPU

AGP can take a hike.... most excellent

ATI has designed, developed and validated in tests with Intel, the industry’s first visual processor using the brand-new PCI Express bus to accelerate the movement of information between the visual processor and the central processor.

“PCI Express is the most significant transition the PC industry has undergone in the past decade. We already have working silicon that uses PCI Express natively,” said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President of Marketing and General Manager, Desktop, ATI Technologies Inc. “As the industry transitions to PCI Express and as chipset and motherboard companies make this new interconnect available to customers, ATI will be ready with visual processors that can take advantage of the advanced capabilities.”

Source: ATITech.ca

Comments

  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Here we go...

    Round 1 .. in the red corner... ATI :D
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    and still in the locker room trying to get his shorts on, is NV.
    Do you know where there is a roadmap for mobo using PCIx?
  • WuGgaRoOWuGgaRoO Not in the shower Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    whats sooo good ab out this pci businessz?
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2003
    PCI-Express. Totally new technology.

    What's so good about it? Well, for starters, it can be faster than AGP.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    not to b confused with PCI-X, which is simply a 64bit PCI Bus. I think PCI-X does something like 133MHz with a bandwitdh of 1066MBps.

    PCI Express does 2K+ MBps at a speed I am unsure of.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2003
    http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.html?i=1830&p=4 is a great explanation.

    RWB, PCI Express is flexible. It's got (as I recall) 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, and 32x connectors... 2x has 2x the bandwidth of 1x, 4x has 4x the bandwidth of 1x, etc.
    1x has a bandwidth of a bit over 200mb/s in each direction. The first generation of PCI Express graphics cards will use 16x slots, which means they'll have an interface bandwidth of ~8GB/s.
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited September 2003
    Picture of an ATI PCI-Express card (no idea what model, but looks like a 9000 or 9200).
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited September 2003
    Not only that, but due to the bandwidth, speed and overall specs, they will dissipate 75W of power or more.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2003
    Danball, that depends on the card. I can tell you right now the card in the pic simguy just posted isn't dissipating that much heat- the cooler couldn't handle it.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited September 2003
    Take a look at the story at TheInquirer:

    http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11589
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Apparently YOU didn't take a good look at the story, Danball.

    It doesn't say dissipate.
    It says "Will require."

    And it doesn't say "75w."
    It says "Up to 75w max."


    Which is why it then goes on to explain the new architecture required for power supplies!

    :rolleyes2
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2003
    require 75 watts <font color="red" size="7"><b><i><u>max</u></i></b></font>
    :rolleyes2

    //Edit
    Took me longer to code that than it did for Thrax to say the same thing
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited September 2003
    Thrax said
    Apparently YOU didn't take a good look at the story, Danball.

    It doesn't say dissipate.
    It says "Will require."

    And it doesn't say "75w"
    It says "Up to 75w max"


    Which is why it then goes on to explain the new architecture required for power supplies!

    :rolleyes2

    What really is the difference between "will require" and dissipate?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Dissipation = HEAT EMITTED FORM THE CORE
    Require = POWER NEEDED TO MAKE IT RUN
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited September 2003
    Ok, since it will require 75W Max to run a typical video card, with a minimum 300W PSU, I wonder what the power requirements will be for the nVidia cards.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    I'll take a wild guess and say: Less than 75w.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2003
    ;D
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited September 2003
    Thrax said
    I'll take a wild guess and say: Less than 75w.

    Well, as with the first generation GeForce FX cards, it might be more. ;D
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited September 2003
    Looks like the ATI PCI Express-based adapter picture I posted is based off of the new RV380/381 lineup of VPU's. Basically, they will be the replacements for the Radeon 9200 & 9600. :)
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