Nvidia rolls high-end graphics processor

I'm curious what people think of making hardware specifically to work with Microsofts whimsical graphics standard DirectX. Granted NVidia supports OGL but ATI doesn't (which I think is dumb but that's just my opinion I guess).

Here is an article about the new Nvidia FX (pixel shaders and programable stuff galor in it). They don't directly compare it with the new Radion chip from ATI but they do mention some differences and such.

The chip adds an FPU as well it eats as much as a P3 in terms of power. this doesn't include the 128M of memory it supports either. Power budget for this chip is 35 watts for the GPU and 15 watts for the memory. 8 4Mx32 chips and a 128bit bus are supported. Memory is a DDR500 interface.

Cyb

Welll hitting ATI's web site it says it supports the 1.3 spec of OGL.. I've heard nothing but bitching about ATI cards and OGL though so I'm really skeptical about how well they actually support it.

Cyb

radTube said:

Haha, you've heard nothing but bitching? Well, let me correct that. My 8500 runs OGL beautifully

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Yes.. but that might mean it just supports the subset of OGL1.3 that is needed to run normal games. I know if you use plugins for ePSXe it becomes a whole new matter. OGL 2.0 should reduce a lot of the problems and remove extensions people have made to 1.2 and 1.3 specs. Such as negative textures (IE they subtract from the color of something else) and other affects.

A lot of people complain about Pete Bernadete's OGL plugin who have ATI cards. So my guess is whatever he uses has issues with there implementation. Too bad there is no MESA port to windows anymore.

Cyb