Re:3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 recreated via reverse engineering (2021)
by hknmtt on Saturday September 24, 2022 @04:22AM
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"The graphics chip was codenamed Napalm, packed in about 14 million transistors, and was built on the 250nm process." - we have progressed by 35x in 20 years.
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Re:3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 recreated via reverse engineering (2021)
by Bancakes on Saturday September 24, 2022 @04:23AM
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I think more if you count teraflops.
Re:3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 recreated via reverse engineering (2021)
by dangrie158 on Saturday September 24, 2022 @05:15AM
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Should be more like 35^2 considering the same area but scaled down features?
Re:3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 recreated via reverse engineering (2021)
by vikingerik on Saturday September 24, 2022 @11:52AM
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Moore's Law would correctly give a factor of 35x linear density so 35^2 transistors on a square or rectangular die. But speed doesn't scale linearly with transistor count, both because there are diminishing returns per transistor, and because clock speed plateaus.
(Remember Moore's Law is about density, not speed. Density sometimes begets speed but not always; one big counterexample is memory access latency time.)