Leaked NV40 Benchies from HOCP

[bsdgeek]

Wait, which one are you talking about? 2D IQ or 3D IQ as in Filtering/AA?

[gangster]

either

[The PIT]

Originally posted by bsdgeek
Wait, which one are you talking about? 2D IQ or 3D IQ as in Filtering/AA?

Well 2d won't come into it so we're onto 3d.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

NV40 has a new AA mode... rotated grid AA or something like that... and they also finally put in 128tap AF... (16X) Saw screenshots in games, looks pretty good to me.

ATI should be anouncing theirs in a week or two, don't have to wait so long.

Anyways, I think NV40 is a pretty "evolutionary" product. The performance jump is very big, a very programmable/flexable arcitecture, and AA/AF can finally be turned on to almost max...

And also I remembered some time ago that the NV ceo talked about expecting high yields for NV4X. Don't know how coz they chip is probably very big, but maybe they have success w/IBM's fab? (BTW are some of NV40 produced at TSMC too?)

seiously though, they should develop something like FAA... hopefully ATI can fulfuill this one (crossiong my fingers though).

About DVI, correct me if I am wrong, but few days ago I thought I cam across a rumor that R420's ref card is still not dual dvi? can someone clarify this?

Although NV40 sounds all great and stuff, I am not looking foreward to it, coz its using way too much power. Hopefully R420 isn't like this...

But realisticly, I am probably getting a desktop replacement labtop this year... and I am hoping NV will anounc a GeForce 6600 Go or something like that... Then I maybe interested because of PS3.0..

I am thining that the 6600 (midrange) will be like a GF4 Ti4200...

[bsdgeek]

Yes, NV40 extends their RGMS from 2x to 4x and they use 16x AF now. However, the AF is angle dependant like ATI's. It's faster, but won't look as good as it was before on NV3x/NV2x. (disregarding the brilinear crap)

[Rakido]

Nvidia accused of cheating over graphics tech

http://www.fragland.net/index.php?pa...sitem&nid=7487 and
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15502

[Maggi]

history repeating itself over and over again ???

[DukeP]

It always does, doesnt it?

~~DukeP~~

[Maggi]

and it's getting even worse ...

http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44253

[Topha]

I wonder if the Radeon would perform better with a GF device ID

[Topha]

Reading further through that discussion revealed: The game actually runs faster on the ATI card when using the NV path


Here are some screenshots and benchmarks, both from a radeon card


I hope nvidia does not get through with this

[dbdg]

There were a few people saying that it isn't fair to force the 6800 to use the R300 path but generally it is believed that the R300 path is the dx-9 path. They think is is the only way to force dx-9 as ATi have not strode too far from the spec.

[Wombat]

It's not just generally believed. FarCry creates a log file, and you can see that the difference between the two paths is that the R300 uses the PS2.0 shaders, and the 6800 uses PS1.1/2.0 shaders (faster, looks worse).

[dbdg]

Whats nice is these days although there are only two choices the *current* slower option is still fast enough.

Still see no need to replace the 9700Pro, unless the new ATi card ie *really* nice

[bsdgeek]

Don't think it's really cheating, NV40 is just using the mixed-mode path for NV3x, is it not? If you think it's wrong, then blame the FarCry developers.