ATI vs. NVIDIA: The Next Generation

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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Why ATI are a bunch of sissies

[Anonymous Coward]

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.