Vacker kort och tjej, måste dock påpeka att striden inte är över ennu. DirectX 9.0c kommer strax, information som läckt talar om en 5-10 % snabbare perforemence för geforce i farcry :D.
och på tal om ati vs nVida måste jag citera en på /.
with ultra shit support.
The fanboy following video cards is endlessly annoying. I own a Radeon 9800, and it was good value for the dollar all around, but quite frankly, the support sucks.
ATI relies on big benchmark numbers over real world results, I guess that's what 'uber pc geeks' want. nVidia seems to cater to gamers by working with developers to make sure games USE all those fancy new functionalities of the GPU. Ie; nVidia's "The Way it was Meant to be Played" program. ATI plays lip service to it with it's "Get in the Game" program, but they don't provide the same support (like sample codes for killer shader effects, etc)
So we end up with TRON 2.0 having really cool glowing effects on nVidia, but flat and tacky looking on ATI. We have soft shadows in Splinter Cell for nVidia, blocky PSX-era crap for ATI.
Hell, I could go on for months listing all the anomalies in actual real-life games I've encountered. Texture corruptions in Tomb Raider: AOD, outright crashes in Halo.
For all the hype around FSAA and anisotropic filtering - just about EVERY GAME I've enabled them for has crashed hard. Unreal 2, Halo, XIII.
Oh, and the worst, the absolute worst, is frame drops to 5fps and worse in CounterStrike when there's smoke onscreen. I mean COME ON, I had a RivaTNT2 that played the game properly. There's no excuse for that, save a piss poor opengl implementation.
So I tried Will Rock, the game whos screenshots were on my 9800's box, and is a member of the "get in the game" program. This ought to SMOKE on an ATI card, right? Almost, awful looking texture corruption in menus, stuttering in-game for no apparent reason (nothing on screen).
Missing proprietary nVidia features is fine, substitute your proprietary ATI features. Just make them stable and working.
I've used ATI forever, they used to be a cut above the other retail level cards. Now they've slipped hard.
This is a case where nVidia will slowly strangle the competition, because the competition sucks. I'd really like to see ATI turn around and focus on the gaming experience, not the mutual masturbation you see on rage3d.com (the unofficial "support" forum) - with a bunch of kids comparing benchmarks and overclocks, with two or three frustrated folks chronically posting for advice on with mishmash of driver files will actually work with Counter Strike.
Anyhow, hooray for leapfrogging nVidia in phony-baloney do-nothing benchmarks. Will this fabulous new technology actually work with games or is this just more MARKETING BULLSHIT for the likes of toms hardware and hardocp to spread?
