Thursday, April 12, 2007

NVIDIA G80 more than just a new GPU

When NVIDIA announced its first DirectX 10 hardware, I could not have been more excited. I knew this new generation of graphics cards would be a huge leap in the development of the GPU. What makes the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 series special? First, we have to understand the architecture (and how a GPU works) before we can really talk about the benefits of the G80.
When word of the G80 and its basic specifications were leaked, tech sites lead the world to believe NVIDIA was going to turn its focus away from a unified architecture to a non-unified one. Let's examine the difference between the two.

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