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ATI & Nvidia Duke It Out In New Gaming War

Posted by Hemos on from the who's-bringing-the-heavy-artillery dept.

geek_on_a_stick writes "I found this PC World article about ATI and Nvidia battling it out over paper specs on their graphics cards. Apparently ATI's next board will support pixel shader 1.4, while Nvidia's GeForce3 will only go up to ps 1.3. The bigger issue is that developers will have to choose which board they want to develop games for, or, write the code twice--one set for each board. Does this mean that future games will be hardware specific?"

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  1. Back to the future by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Actually... It seems everything is cyclic, it's just a return to the old days when all programs had to have specific drivers for the monitor and video adapter you have... Nothing new over there.

  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    blurst roast!