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- From: roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell)
- Subject: Re: ET4000/W32 and VESA VL-Bus
- In-Reply-To: gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com's message of 23 Dec 92 05:03:36 GMT
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- Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, Technische Univ. Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 09:21:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.092101.4257@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- >Don't overlook bus width in your analysis. The W32 sounds like it is 32 bit
- >wide path instead of the 8 (16?) - bit wide path of the standard ET4000.
- >This would quadruple (double?) the bandwidth of any type of ram access.
-
- Hmmm.... this would be an argument, depending on what you mean.
-
- Normally you have TWO busses on a graphics chip, the bus to the video
- memory and the bus to the host system (and if you have VRAMs, the bus
- to the RAMDAC is a third one). The DRAM (video memory) bus is
- traditionally 32 bit wide, since 1MB DRAM is build from 8 256x4 DRAM
- chips. The host bus (read ISA/EISA/MCA) is normally 16bit wide. That
- means your argument dosn't apply here directly.
-
- BUT thet ET4000/W32 has a 32bit wide host bus interfeace which means
- the path 486 -> ET4000/W32 will be faster throu the increased bus
- width, but that doesn't affect the internal access time to video
- memory. In fact if you assume that the VL bus has a write throuput of
- 33MB/sec (yes, this was actually measured, not a theoretical limit),
- then the DRAM access sped of the ET4000/W32 will limit your
- performance again.
-
- - Thomas
-
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