Article: Parallelism at HotPar 2010
By: Gabriele Svelto (gabriele.svelto.delete@this.gmail.com), July 30, 2010 8:18 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
hobold (hobold@vectorizer.org) on 7/30/10 wrote:
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>(Nvidia's GF104 is the first superscalar GPU)
That's a bit of a stretch considering that both R300 and NV40 shader cores supported 2-way issue of certain instruction pairs. The cores weren't as sophisticate as today but it's not like we're breaking new ground either, since R600 AMD's shader cores are 5-way issue VLIWs.
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>(Nvidia's GF104 is the first superscalar GPU)
That's a bit of a stretch considering that both R300 and NV40 shader cores supported 2-way issue of certain instruction pairs. The cores weren't as sophisticate as today but it's not like we're breaking new ground either, since R600 AMD's shader cores are 5-way issue VLIWs.
