Aug 21, 2003, 05:01 PM
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TYAN Tachyon G9600 PRO 128MB (ATI RADEON 9600 PRO) Video Card Review
Have you ever thought about how electrons work inside a graphics processor? How do pipelines operate and texture processors apply textures?
It makes an amusing picture if we represent a GPU in the form of a galaxy. An electron will be right the size of a man :-). Imagine there are 4 big constellations, - they are pipelines. And so on. Now let's imagine that a man goes at the speed of 5 km/h, the Earth makes one rotation every 24 hours, and if a man stands on the equator he covers 40 000 km in addition, i.e. about 1666 km/h, or 462 m/s. The yearly distance comes to 40000*365=14600000 km. Not bad, right? I don't remember diameters of the ellipse of the trajectory of the Earth's revolution around the Sun, but if we take that the orbit is round with the radius of 150M km, the Earth will cover 942M km a year (2*pi*r) at the speed of 107534 km/h, or 30 km/s. If we add it to the distance covering simply because of the Earth rotation, we will get astronomic figures...
Read the review at Digit-Life.com
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