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ATI vs. NVIDIA: ATI Steals the Show

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the video-card-shootout dept.

(54)T-Dub writes "Apparently a group of MIT engineers made an OpenGL wrapper for the NVidia Demo of 'Dawn.' (a fairy with high sex appeal) Even though the wrapper adds more overhead the demo still runs faster on the 9800pro and creates higher quality images." Yet another reason it's good to have engineering students on your side.

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  1. Re:OUCH by Angry+White+Guy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Once they kill off Nvidia, they will have no excuse not to release open source drivers, there'll be nobody left to copy them.

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  2. Re:OUCH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If nVidia can ever learn to write a driver and design decent hardware they might a chance.

    The nForce2 has a blazingly fast memory bus. And crippling IDE and audio problems that slow the system down significantly.

  3. Re:Graphics Wars by wiggys · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The thing is, ATi have always produced very feature-rich graphics cards, especially for the OEM market. This enabled vendors to sell systems with built-in TV tuners and video capture facilities. ATi cards have always had superb 2d image quality.

    nVidia, on the other hand, have always gone for the gaming market - their speciality was 3d acceleration (with respectable built-in 2d capabilities)... the faster the better.

    Maybe nVidia rested on their laurels, but ATi have come along and threatened the one thing which separated them from nVidia - high speed high quality 3d acceleration.

    nVidia need to come up with something to separate them from ATi - and fast.

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  4. Re:idea by pcmills · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You might have to stick with Nvidia. HL2 might be Nvidia only. Spong.com

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  5. Re:nvidia destroyed 3dfx by CaseyB · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Thus many people had to buy a new geforce card.

    That's the dumbest thing I've read in a long time. Why did you have to buy a new GeForce card? If you wanted performance equivalent to your 3Dfx, you could have bought any of dozens of different $30 OEM cards.

  6. Re:Get your fantasy terms right. by Mensa+Babe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I am terribly sorry to say that, but I find your sexist jokes highly offensive. You might consider being a little bit more intelligent next time. Thank you. What is this? Slashdot or a bunch of bored kids with to much time on their hands?

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  7. Re:OUCH by eviltypeguy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well guess what. The open source honey moon days are over. ATi has officially stated that they will not release the specifications for the 9700/9800, etc. Because open source programmers like us in so many words are too incompetent to be able to write a decent driver for fully programmable hardware and giving out the information necessary would be too advantageous to the competition anyway. So bugger off. I'm an ATi 9800 owner myself...