Nvidia chips have on die cache
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on June 17, 2002 at 7:23:30 PM
I don't see why this is a big deal.
What you would usually expect is that the GPU would send data into memory while running its calculations. The chip ordiniarily keeps some data in graphics memory, since the memory can remember and keep some interstates of calculations, before returning it to the GPU to get a final result.
But the result of the experiment was quite surprising; at least it surprised us a lot. Our investigator didnt get any data transfer from chip to memory and there where no interstates. The result came straight from the chip.
What you would usually expect is that the GPU would send data into memory while running its calculations. The chip ordiniarily keeps some data in graphics memory, since the memory can remember and keep some interstates of calculations, before returning it to the GPU to get a final result.
But the result of the experiment was quite surprising; at least it surprised us a lot. Our investigator didnt get any data transfer from chip to memory and there where no interstates. The result came straight from the chip.