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Hemos
on from the look-at-the-purty-pictures dept.
~fly~ writes "Tom's has a detailed review with benchmarks of Nvidia's new GeForce256 'GPU'. " The synopsis: High expectations, but it appears to meet the demand.
Doing a search for geforce on www.linuxgames.com revealed this snippet from an irc log: ----------- ([Jar]2) (orlock) WIll they still be supporting Xfree86/Mesa3D/glx/linux/etc like they have in the past? (nvdaNick) Yes.
(MicroDooD) (LaRz17) Will drivers for multiple operating systems be released at the same time? (nvdaNick) As for driver releases, I think NVIDIA is planning to release all drivers at once.
([Jar]) (MfA) Will the non windows drivers be open source? (ie not run through the pre-processor) (nvdaNick) What would you want with open source drivers, by the way? (nvdaNick) I'm not sure what our plans will be regarding that. -----------------
\begin{speculation} Anyway, if this is correct and nVidia is going to be have official support for Linux they are probably going to use SGI sample implementation and thus cannot release their driver as open source. \end{speculation}
Boy, does he hate 3dfx o_O
by
Chris+Johnson
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· Score: 4
What happened with that, did they make fun of him or not give him cards to test or something? Like anybody, I have pet vaporware that I'd like to see succeed and become real, and for me that's the next generation 3dfx stuff with the antialiasing and motion blurs (in which the former would work with old games too). It's OK with me if it doesn't fly, I'll still wait and see what happens with it, but it's pretty boggling to see this guy kicking at 3dfx so bad. He was coming up with these big benchmarks for a GeForce card that people can't even get yet, and making nasty remarks about how poorly the Voodoo3 measured up (when actually Glide ran competitively when available), and how old is the V3 by now? Compared with a GeForce that people can't even get ATM?
It's nice to see that they've apparently added some of the MPEG 2 motion compensation support that ATI has had for a while. But I really wish they would bite the bullet and add a full MPEG 2 decoder. It would only take about a half million transistors; no one would even notice the extra die area.
Software MPEG 2 decoders for Windows basically suck, and there aren't (yet) any real-time decoders for Linux anyhow. Hardware decode is the way to go.
I keep hoping that someone will ship an inexpensive VIP-compatible MPEG 2 decoder daughterboard that I could use with my Asus V3800 TNT2 card, and it hasn't happened yet, but simply building it into the next generation nVidia chip would be even better.
Eric
Tom's...and every other hardware site too
by
sugarman
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· Score: 5
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Doing a search for geforce on www.linuxgames.com revealed this snippet from an irc log:
-----------
([Jar]2) (orlock) WIll they still be supporting Xfree86/Mesa3D/glx/linux/etc like they have in the past?
(nvdaNick) Yes.
(MicroDooD) (LaRz17) Will drivers for multiple operating systems be released at the same time?
(nvdaNick) As for driver releases, I think NVIDIA is planning to release all drivers at once.
([Jar]) (MfA) Will the non windows drivers be open source? (ie not run through the pre-processor)
(nvdaNick) What would you want with open source drivers, by the way?
(nvdaNick) I'm not sure what our plans will be regarding that.
-----------------
\begin{speculation}
Anyway, if this is correct and nVidia is going to be have official support for Linux they are probably going to use SGI sample implementation and thus cannot release their driver as open source.
\end{speculation}
What happened with that, did they make fun of him or not give him cards to test or something? Like anybody, I have pet vaporware that I'd like to see succeed and become real, and for me that's the next generation 3dfx stuff with the antialiasing and motion blurs (in which the former would work with old games too). It's OK with me if it doesn't fly, I'll still wait and see what happens with it, but it's pretty boggling to see this guy kicking at 3dfx so bad. He was coming up with these big benchmarks for a GeForce card that people can't even get yet, and making nasty remarks about how poorly the Voodoo3 measured up (when actually Glide ran competitively when available), and how old is the V3 by now? Compared with a GeForce that people can't even get ATM?
Software MPEG 2 decoders for Windows basically suck, and there aren't (yet) any real-time decoders for Linux anyhow. Hardware decode is the way to go.
I keep hoping that someone will ship an inexpensive VIP-compatible MPEG 2 decoder daughterboard that I could use with my Asus V3800 TNT2 card, and it hasn't happened yet, but simply building it into the next generation nVidia chip would be even better.
Eric
Did an NDA expire today or something?
Just a couple quick links:
Anandtech GeForce 256 Review
Ace's Hardware GEForce 256 Review
RivaExtreme GeForce 256 DDR Review
The FiringSquad GeForce 256 DDR Review
GA Source Guillemot 3D Prophet Review
3DGPU Geforce 256 DDR Review
Fast Graphics Guillemot 3D Prophet Review
CGO GeForce 256 Preview
Shugashack GeForce, V3 and TNT2 benchmark roundup
Riva3D Full GeForce 256 DDR Review
GeForce 256 DDR Review at Planet Riva
Any others?
--sugarman--