Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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?"

1 of 208 comments (clear)

  1. Re:direct x is not open, OpenGL is, we should use by grazzy · · Score: 2, Troll

    DirectX has full documentation freely available, also DX doesnt only support accelerated graphics but the whole range in output and input devices such as joysticks, sound etc etc.

    OpenGL is written for a UNIX environment, DX is for a Windows environment. And yes, opengl is opensource and very easy to learn, but still it has alot of drawbacks, one of them being those dinosaurs that runs it.

    OpenGL does NOT change very much, which has both good and bad sides, for example, this threads discusses pixel shading, which is a feature OpenGL does not natively supports. I do not know how hard this is to implement in DX, but I figure that since they are even talking about it and not just dismissing it as some "toy" like the OpenGL-board seems todo..