NVIDIA graphics drivers to go multithreaded

daRk_heLmet · Jun 20, 2005, 09:24 PM

"I spoke recently with Ben de Waal, NVIDIA's Vice President of GPU software, and he revealed that NVIDIA has plans to produce multithreaded ForceWare graphics drivers for its GeForce graphics products. Multithreading in the video driver should allow performance increases when running 3D games and applications on dual-core CPUs and multiprocessor PCs. De Waal estimated that dual-core processors could see performance boosts somewhere between five and 30% with these drivers."
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mike2h · Jun 20, 2005, 09:39 PM

will that apply to HT?

eggs420 · Jun 20, 2005, 09:44 PM

Yeah, but the gains aren't as good as physical cpus (as with any threading across HT).

BWX · Jun 20, 2005, 10:35 PM

So ATI will be following suit soon I suppose?

MSX · Jun 21, 2005, 01:40 AM

"Despite the apparent gains offered by multithreading, de Waal expressed some skepticism about the prospects for thread-level parallelism for CPUs. He was concerned that multithreaded games could blunt the impact of multithreaded graphics drivers, among other things."

So in other words it may only be useful till multithreaded games become more abundant.

caqde · Jun 21, 2005, 03:27 AM

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Originally Posted by MSX

"Despite the apparent gains offered by multithreading, de Waal expressed some skepticism about the prospects for thread-level parallelism for CPUs. He was concerned that multithreaded games could blunt the impact of multithreaded graphics drivers, among other things."

So in other words it may only be useful till multithreaded games become more abundant.

Well all I can say is that the more threads running the better the boost in performance a Multi-core processer will give you. So in my eyes useful until is not exactly true it's just that the boost will be say 3% instead of 10-15% for instance. But we will see.

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daRk_heLmet Keep firing, assholes! Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Death Star Posts: 1,072 Rep Power: 0	NVIDIA graphics drivers to go multithreaded "I spoke recently with Ben de Waal, NVIDIA's Vice President of GPU software, and he revealed that NVIDIA has plans to produce multithreaded ForceWare graphics drivers for its GeForce graphics products. Multithreading in the video driver should allow performance increases when running 3D games and applications on dual-core CPUs and multiprocessor PCs. De Waal estimated that dual-core processors could see performance boosts somewhere between five and 30% with these drivers." ___________________________ Read More/Source: TechReport __________________ [color=white]My Blog[/color]

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Jun 21, 2005, 01:40 AM	#5
MSX Burning the frozen... Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 1,201 Rep Power: 0	"Despite the apparent gains offered by multithreading, de Waal expressed some skepticism about the prospects for thread-level parallelism for CPUs. He was concerned that multithreaded games could blunt the impact of multithreaded graphics drivers, among other things." So in other words it may only be useful till multithreaded games become more abundant.