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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. Eye Candy by galaga79 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The eye candy is pretty damn amazing, especially that rendering taken from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within movie. Just a couple of questions though, are those sort of graphics available in existing cards but game developers aren't fully taking advantage of the shaders? If this card intended for consumers/gamers?

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  2. Time vs. Radeon 9700 by Nethergoat · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It will be interesting to see how much of a foothold ATI's Radeon 9700 can get before nVidia's new card actually hits shelves. As this article points out, nVidia has trumped ATI's latest graphics card almost immediately after it becomes available with an even more powerful one of their own. Do people think nVidia will see their pre-orders fewer in number when compared to those made before the releases of their past cards?

  3. So, 3. 5 years it'll be necessary by Quarters · · Score: 4, Interesting
    "My current work on Doom is designed around what was made possible on the original GeForce, and reaches an optimal implementation on the NV30. My next generation of work will be designed around what is made possible on the NV30."
    The GF cards came out 1999ish (give or take). No matter how fast and furiously the hardware manufacturers pump out new silicon there is always a long adoption cycle for any new concepts. Game developers would be pretty thick headed to close out an installed base of X just to support a feature on Y (where Y is an extremely small value compared to X) cards.

    It doesn't matter how earth-shattering the NV30 will be. It's complete feature set won't be utilized anytime soon. The GF3/4 cards still has long lives ahead of them.
  4. Screenshot mirror by glrotate · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Copies of the screenshots here:

    NvNews

  5. Thinking it's a forgery by Viking+Coder · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Given this "nVidia rendered image" and this BMRT rendered image, I see three possibilities.

    One - the guys at nVidia painstakingly translated each aspect of the original image to Cg.

    Two - the guys at nVidia have some technology that translates RenderMan to something they know how to render. It could be RenderMonkey-like technology. It could literally be RenderMonkey, with some nVidia back-end. It could be they contacted the original artist, John Monos, and took his original data and reformatted it (skipping RenderMan, entirely).

    Three - the images are a forgery.

    I'm betting on Three.

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  6. Nice link by bogie · · Score: 3, Interesting

    An https connection and a certificate which says:
    Issued by Snake Oil CA

    Issuer:
    E = ca@snakeoil.dom
    CN = Snake Oil CA
    OU = Certificate Authority
    O = Snake Oil, Ltd
    L = Snake Town
    S = Snake Desert
    C = XY

    Subject:

    E = brian@tangent.org
    CN = .slashdot.org
    OU = Slashdot
    O = Slashdot
    L = Nowhere
    S = Denial
    C = US

    Umm, yea sure I'll trust that.

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  7. Re:Aqsis by orange7 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not quite.

    Pixar has successfully prevented ExLuna from selling their core rendering product, a cutting-edge renderer based on the renderman standard, and also made them yank BMRT, by suing them for patent infringement, and threatening them with all sorts of other nasty legal stuff. (ExLuna is/was a company run by Larry Gritz, amongst other ex-Pixarites, and Larry was the author of BMRT.)

    You won't see BMRT again.

    NVIDIA has since bought ExLuna for their personnel and expertise.

    Yay Pixar. It's amazing how far they've taken that bogus distributed sampling patent.

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  8. Re:The specs on the ATI 9700 by DeathPenguin · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...mean absolutely nothing, as ATi doesn't even have their own driver set out for Linux.

    I've heard some good things about DRI, but nobody using ATi hardware that I know has been able to tell me with a straight face that their card performs as well in Linux as it does in Windows like nVidia cards do.