The GT300/Fermi Thread - Part 2!

[Sam_oslo]

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Of course everything between sky and earth is a kind evolution or tweak of that , but the "Dedicated L1 Load / Store cache" is closer to a revolutionary step in this round. This gets Fermi much closer to become a supercomputer, because it is the part that support generic C/C++ program (very much like a x86 CPU would do).

This cache sits in-between all shader clusters and can be accessed by all of them. This makes it possible to have unified read/write cache, which allows program correctness and is a key feature to support generic C/C++ programs. This is actually pretty revolutionary step i would say.