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nVidia NV3x Sneak Peek

Posted by chrisd on from the video-and-memory-have-scary-margins dept.

zoobaby writes "Here is a sneak peak at nVidia's upcoming line of cards. No hard specs, but some nice notes on changes from current NV2x to NV3x, also some very nice screenshots to show off what it will be capable of." In related news, Tim_F noticed that memory manufacturer Crucial is entering the video card business with their first card based on the ATI Radeon 8500le.

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  1. Re:Fix the links, please by Gogo+Dodo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's the fixed link to Crucial's video card.

  2. Re:Thinking it's a forgery by Viking+Coder · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sorry, here's ALL the evidence that I found :

    BMRT chess (by John Monos) vs. "nVidia chess"

    BMRT Bike (by Don Kim) vs. "nVidia Bike"

    BMRT Table (by Goran Kocov) vs. "nVidia Table"

    BMRT Markers (by Rudy Poat) vs. "nVidia Markers"

    I believe I've pretty definitively shown that either they have an actual RenderMan renderer running on their hardware (and access to the original data by four different authors), or this is a fake.

    Sorry, I can't find the coffee cup or the Final Fantasy image. Maybe someone else can.

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  3. Re:Thinking it's a forgery by donglekey · · Score: 5, Informative

    It is forgery. The BMRT images are so old there is little way they could dig up 5 or 6 year old images from someone who doesn't have any association with Exluna and that created them before there was an Exluna.

    More than that, the coffe cup is rendered with Entropy, not BMRT, it was done as all those images were, by someone else, this one recently in an image contest.

    The most obvious flaw though, is that those images are raytraced, and this is not something that anyone is claiming to do in realtime yet. It is beyond the scope of Nvidia's processor, as it should be. Those images are scaled duplicates that aren't changed a bit, and there is no way that an Nvidia card rendered them, because there is no way the reflections would be the same, but they are. Reflection maps have a tendancy to look correct, but not the same. There is also depth of field which is not impossible, but is improbable for now.

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  4. FiringSquad nv30 article by DarkHelmet · · Score: 4, Informative
    There is another sneak peak at firingsquad...

    http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardware/cinefx/defa ult.asp

    Joy.

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