Gabriele Svelto (gabriele.svelto@gmail.com) on 7/30/10 wrote:
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>hobold (hobold@vectorizer.org) on 7/30/10 wrote:
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>>(Nvidia's GF104 is the first superscalar GPU)
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>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.

I wouldn't count VLIW (because that is done statically by the compiler rather than dynamically by the hardware), but I stand corrected nevertheless.