| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 6 Sep 2000 at 11:28:43 |
| Subject: | Re: GFX Cards |
hi,
> Does anyone else think it's a pain that Amiga choose an nVidia Geforce 256
> for their Devbox spec, then form an alliance with Matrox? (Guess who bought
> a GeForce?).
err, no. I dont understand people who rushed out to buy the first leaked
specs when the devkit wasnt even out.
> Not that I'm really complaining, I've had Matrox cards in the past and they
> are good. The G800 looks very good with T&L and bump mapping although it
> may have to do a lot to compete with the performance of the latest GeFore 2
> GTS 64MB cards.
who knows what Matrox have up their sleeves, and what it can do. raw speed
isnt everything, theres also the graphical look and picture enhancement
technology.
ATI's Radeon, for example has cool and well-designed functionality (such as
1-command,1 clock Zbuffer clearing which means vast amounts of time saving
on that part of 3D work. which means that the Radeon is slower than GeForce2
(by 10%) on 1024x768x16bit, but is ~TWICE as fast at 1600x1200x32bit
alan
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