[News] Marvell announces Discovery III Northbridge | ANN.lu |
Posted on 30-Sep-2003 15:01 GMT by takemehomegrandma | 94 comments View flat View list |
Marvell today announced the Discovery III northbridge. It features a 200MHz PowerPC CPU interface, 200MHz DDR SDRAM Interface (400Mbps data rate), Dual CPU SMP Support (MPX and 60x modes), PCI-X, Gigabit ethernet and is software compatible with other Discovery northbridges.
Source: morphos-news.de
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Posted by Crumb // AAT on 01-Oct-2003 10:03 GMT | In reply to Comment 61 (Eva): "Anyway if you see the benchmark I can tell you also that ... if you compare an ATi 8500 PCI with an ATi 8500 AGP, the differences in speed are little (in Q3 tests about 6-7 fps) ... this means that Agp is useless?"
no, I'm not saying DDR support is useless... now the prices with normal sdram are matched but in a few quarters the prices of normal sdram will rise and and ddr ones will fall.
Regarding the AGP vs PCI... For me the AGP was only developed to sell new graphic cards as they did changing cpu sockets (firstly slot1 was great, a little later it wasn't), etc... I would have prefered an improvement of the whole pci bus (a release of pci3, etc...). I agree that the possibility of accessing system ram is great (but it can be achieved with a bus master pci card, can't it?), but all that bandwitch won't help much... I prefer a good graphic core with lots of ram in pci than a super agp x8 board with a crappy core...
Even if the Pegasos II was released with only PCI I wouldn't mind much... it's still a kick-ass server with its 3 ethernet gigabits, you have agp<--->pci adapters available, in AmigaOS/MorphOS you don't really take advantage of modern gfx cards, so even a radeon 7500 pci will be enough...
"Point out that "DIscovery DDR support is useless" is simply not true. "
I don't remember saying that. I'm only say that it's a pity that the FSB of the cpu doesn't support DDR transfers so the memory's extra bandwitch is used...
"In these dayz Singapore dealers Sdram price are higher than DDR 333 one! And it's also difficult to find Sdram around. So also the simple fact that we can INSTALL DDR-ram is a step foward."
In spain sdram is still cheaper in "Alternate" and other shops, but we can be sure that in a few months the prices will change a lot.
"So also the simple fact that we can INSTALL DDR-ram is a step foward."
I haven't said the contrary, but it would be a greater step if motorola or ibm decided to add DDR support to its range of g3/G4s... |
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