Slashdot Mirror
ATI's HyperZ Demystified
noname (guess who ;) writes, "There's a really thorough look at ATI's Radeon 256 32MB (which we've not seen yet due to the delay in shipping) and the technology behind it. The author of this piece not only pits it against NVIDIA's best (the GeForce2)also went behind the scenes of ATI's HyperZ technology by interviewing some engineers about the 3D graphics pipeline. Finally we get to the bottom of who's better, the GeForce2 or the Radeon and it looks like a win for NVIDIA here."
One of the few points very very few people ever catch about *most* nVidia cards.
/. raw) and..
:p
Take my comment with a grain of salt since im not providing URL's but....
Comparing side by side TNT2/Geforce whatever cards with a MAX in pictures and the MAX pictures were much more clear.
Everyone cuts corners including nVidia the performance kings. I wish I had a URL to a few pictures but its true and anyone who doesnt believe should research it. (I own a G400 Max which runs on my 19" sony, that I had to pay my left arm for, and it looks so awesome that I could give a crap my QIII performance is sub par.
That is how it is for most people, I stare at code more than QIII on my system which is more important to me?
SO I feel like im just getting the best deal with my Matrox, I can run QIII at playable framerates at 800x600, and I have one of the most crisp and clear pictures on any system I have seen (really).
I love Matrox so much I bought one for my workstation at work.
Anyhow
Jeremy
OT:I have noticed I never ever use my +1 bonus unless I forget to check the No Score +1 Bonus, since I moderate comments for myself (always read
I think it should be the default hehe I know a lot of other people do that on accident to.
Again Me
Considering that the radeon has been getting reviewed since the 17th of July.
No matter how good ATI's architecture might be on paper, the simple fact of the matter is that ATI can't write drivers to save their lives and NVIDIA has the best driver dev team in the industry combined with a very mature and stable driver set.
Plus the GF2 kicks ass under linux.
As if that wasn't enough, the GF2 chip is bandwidth constrained, so as supplies of 4ns DDR SDRAM increase, GF2 ultras will become common. The Radeon doesn't have the horsepower to take advantage of these improvements in memory technology.
--Shoeboy
Ok, I've got a Matrox G400 32MB Dualhead that I'm very happy with, and I can run the GL versions of MESS and MAME in 1280x1024x32 and whatnot... But doesn't this all get really silly after a while?
Why would I ever need greater than 60fps in anything? And once I have that, in truecolor, why would I need much better than 800x600 in the first place? Especially if I'm too busy playing Quake to look at the graphics?
What I want to see is a more versatile, programmable hardware acceleration, like edge-detection style algorithms in hardware that lets you implement, say, Conway's Game of Life. Or let your graphics card churn away on a dataset, doing those funky matrix computations that we all love....
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Anyone else noticing that some of these high traffic ''review'' sites are serving up less and less on a page?
It is getting that adverts are becoming a new form of punctuation that you use at the end of a paragraph.
At least Andandtech and Tom's Hardware give you a table of contents for the review so you can cut through filler like the exact details of the test platform.
It is all the more irritating since browsers do not have a serious problem with monstrously long pages, and the aggregation of the whole review on a single page would have raised no eyebrows.