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在PC众多的部件当中,显示卡上的显示芯片可以称得上是与CPU最有“共同语言(惺惺相惜)”的。无论是从集成晶体管的数目,还是从芯片设计的方法上,两者都有着十分惊人的相似。举个例子,1998年风风火火的nVidia Riva TNT集成了700万只晶体管,带有高达12KB的片上缓存,10GFLOPS的浮点几何处理器,每秒400亿次像素操作的流水线,并且能在一个时钟周期内处理两组像素数据。历经了1998年以Riva TNT、MatroxG200以及Voodoo Banshe等为代表的第三代显示芯片的龙虎大战,如今我们又
Among the many components of the PC, the display chip on the display card can be described as the most “common language” with the CPU. Either from the number of integrated transistors, or from the chip design approach, both have a very striking similarity. For example, the bustling nVidia Riva TNT of 1998 incorporated 7 million transistors with up to 12KB of on-chip cache, 10 GFLOPS of floating-point geometry, 40 billion operations per second of pipelines, and clocking in one clock cycle Processing two sets of pixel data within. After the Riva TNT in 1998, MatroxG200 and Voodoo Banshe, represented by the third-generation display chip Dragon Tiger War, and now we have