RV710 architecture disclosed |
Radeon HD 4550 is going to ship at the end of September, but some of the documents have already been found, and the architecture of RV710 have been disclosed. The amount of transistors are 242 million, less than RV 730’s 514 million. This is because HD 4550 have only 80 shaders, and HD 4650 have 320 shaders.
ForceWare 177.98 WHQL VS 177.92 Beta |
ForceWare 177.98 WHQL may become the last driver of the 177 family. After this NVIDIA are going to roll out their Big Bang II. So this time how well the 177.98 performs?
Test platform：
CPU: Intel Core 2 QX9650 OC 400MHzX10
Mobo: Asustek Maximus Extreme
Memory: A-DATA DDR3 1066 1Gx2
Graphic Card: GeForce GTX 280
Driver: Forceware 175.19 and 177.92
OS: Windows Vista SP1
New? Old? three ways of GTX 260 Discriminations |
So NVIDIA decided that they are not going to change name of the new 216sp GTX 260, we’d better find a way to tell the new 260 from the old.
1. Shader
The new GTX 260 have 9 TPC, thats 24 shaders more than the old GTX 260, So the easiest way to see the difference is from ForceWare control panel’s system information．One of the improvement of ForceWare 177 is more info will be display in the system information page. So let’s see:
