自从知道cuda以后一直在关注显卡方面的信息。HD5870,338mm²,20 SIMD blocks,1600 stream processors,80 sample units and textures filtering ,32 blocks ROP,256- bit memory bus ,core clock frequency – 850 MHz, memory clock frequency GDDR5 : 1200 MHz (effective – 4800 MHz)
GTX300,还没有出来,据说的参数是452 or 492mm²,2 GHz clock for the 512 MIMD cores,rely on MIMD-similar functions [Multiple-Instruction Multiple Data] - all the units work in MPMD mode, executing simple and complex shader and computing operations on-the-go.
SIMD:Single Instruction, Multiple Data;
MIMD,Multiple-Instruction Multiple Data;
SPMD (Single Process, Multiple Data) ;
MPMD (Multiple Process, Multiple Data) ;
这方面来说,nvidia的平行构架更好一些,所以尽管1600 vs 512,不过性能上可能512胜出。
面积上338 vs 450+ ,单从面积看,nvidia的成本更高阿。
另外考虑到directx11的Compute Shader,相信两者的擂台会更加精彩。
希望amd,nvidia,intel多多竞争,用户才有好日子过阿。