Carmack on NV30 vs R300

Nexxpert writes "John Carmack has posted his thoughts on the NV30 vs R300 (featured via www.bluesnews.com. Highlights some of the shortcomings of Nvidia's next step as well as pointing out what they've done right. Interesting read." In particular the arb2 vs nv30 path differences mean that it's not as simple as saying "ATI roX0rs nVidia" or vice versa.(update: sorry bout the misspelling, don't know how I missed that)

Comments

Re:Who the fuck is that guy?

[mao che minh]

His contribution to the world was good enough to force at least 80% of us to consume unimaginable amounts of our college's T3 bandwidth. It almost cost at least one of us (wink wink) our job. To speak the name of this soul sucking horror....no, tis too dangerous, it makes me "quake".

OK, I feel a little bit stupider.

[3.5 stripes]

I was doing ok for the first paragraph or so.

Then my brain went *beep* *beep* *beep*

And I lost everything.

About the only thing I came away with is, if you do it the way a specific vendor wants, it kicks the crap outa the other one, otherwise the ATI may be a wee bit faster.

Re:Who the fuck is that guy?

[Anonymous Coward]

This thread was "Doomed" from the start.

Whatver works best for Doom3...

[grub]

...is what I'm buying! Blood, gore, death, mutilation, horror... that's what I want splattered on my monitor.

Re:Whatver works best for Doom3...

[paulcammish]

Blood, gore, death, mutilation, horror... that's what I want splattered on my monitor.

Considered a chainsaw? Or a shotgun?

You should be able to get hold of them a bit cheaper than one of those videocards, and it even looks better.

Re:Who the fuck is that guy?

[CaseyB]

I'm "Keen" on continuing it.

The answer

[wantedman]

Carmak is the equivelent of Einstein for the computing age. He is a genius. His work with BSP, Ray Tracing, AI is usually regarded as the "Standard" or best real life way of doing game engine design in real time.

In other words, he is a god...

While you are a smuck.

Re:The answer

[Omkar]

You misspelled the guy's name after ~20 comments about the very same error were posted? It's Carmack, dammit!

Carmak: Negative

[SirNarfsALot]

(mostly due to the egregious misspelling)

MIB 2 reference

[BigBir3d]

These are both the "new hotness" but with the noise of the nVidia I forsee it becoming "old and busted" quite soon.

Not to mention ATi's next card...

Bill Gates eludes custard pie man!!

[Anonymous Coward]

.

This story states that Bill gates is on the run once again from the Belgian Custard Pie Hurler 'Noel Godin', the famous practical joker who has gotten the MS boss before.

More on the first Attack can be found here.

Ol' Billy now seems to be overly cautious now each time he is forced to visit Belgium.

Cowboy Kneal and everyone at Slachdot...

[mbbac]

...really need to concentrate on spelling people's names correctly. When they can't even spell John Carmack's name right, something is seriously wrong.

Its

[Anonymous Coward]

Its Carmack.
It's "It's Carmack.". Why are you such a nitpicker?

Slashdot heros.

[Cannelbrae]

Its wonderful to see slashdot celebrating its heros like John Carmak, Richard Stalman and Linus Torvads. I mean, with names like these contributing, who needs editors?

Re:You don't need bluesnews; just standard finger

[Anonymous Coward]

"The R300 can run Doom.." "The NV30 can run DOOM"

Heh, even teb Carmack isn't sure what the capitalization is.

Spelling

[doc_traig]

update: sorry bout the misspelling, don't know how I missed that

psst... it's spelled about...