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ATI vs. NVIDIA: The Next Generation

Posted by timothy on from the pixel-pushers dept.

doppler writes: "There's a killer graphics card round-up at TR today that compares the new GeForce4 and Radeon 8500 128MB cards against each other in extensive testing. Very good stuff. Most interesting: a visual representation of a texture upload problem in OpenGL on the Radeon 8500 chip."

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  1. 128! Wowzers by splume · · Score: 2, Funny

    That has more memory than my Webserver running FreeBSD!(64MB) Sheesh.

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    Who is John Galt?
    1. Re:128! Wowzers by dimator · · Score: 3, Funny

      Raise your hand if you remember a time when one company would make fun of the other for adding more and more memory because "You'll never need 32MB of video memory!"

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  2. yes! yes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    YES! Now I can have an expensive video card that I can use for displaying xterms, emacs, and mozilla. Where do I sign?

  3. Why ATI are a bunch of sissies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Instead of bruteforcing polygons the MAN'S way, ATI decided to be a bunch of sissies and implement HyperZ technology. 'Discard unseen pixels'? BAH! I'd much rather have these unseen pixels rendered than let them go to waste. Their proprietary TRUFORM technology is good, if you like seeing rounding errors (see Serious Sam SE's shotgun model). Moreover, their names are misleading. 'Pixel tapestry', 'Charisma Engine' - what do these names mean? How can a pixel have tapestry?

    Meanwhile, NVIDIA continues its dedication to their customers by giving them 128MB of VRAM; conveniently providing the customer with 32 extra MB of VRAM to use as a RAMdrive. Instead of fudging around with names like ATI does, they've simply decided to follow 3DFX's naming scheme and simply name their cards GeForce(n + 1). I look forward to the day when the GeForce requires an input from the +5V power supply.

  4. Re:Sweet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh yeah. I remember that one. That was the full screen 16:9 streaming quicktime video of Jobs snorting coke off the new mac with those underage Mexican hookers.

    That ruled!

  5. Re:rumor has it... by cREW+oNE · · Score: 2, Funny

    Rumor has it the bitboys are coming with something amazing too!

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    +++ATH0

  6. Wait a sec... by ROBOKATZ · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought Slashdot said ATI and NVIDIA were merging? What happened to that? :)