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NVidia's Next-Gen

by Steve Gibson, Jul 05, 2000 11:04am PDT
Related Topics – NVidia

Looking at that big X-Box story written by Abrash, a lot of people overlooked (Shack included) that Mr. Abrash gives out some details on the next-gen 3D chip from NVidia. The Tech-Report guys round it up pretty nicely.

The GPU's raw fill rate at 250 MHz will be 1 Gpix/sec. To provide some context for that number, at a resolution of 640×480, it is sufficient to draw every pixel on the screen more than 50 times per frame, at a frame rate of 60 Hz. . . There's also occlusion-detection circuitry that can increase fill rate by up to 4X
update Jack - This smells remarkably like a chunking architecture. I've been hearing down the grapevine(s) that this is where 3D accelerators are heading for their next-generation products. The technology has similarities to the old PowerVR hardware, though I'm sure that nVidia's solved or worked around the scene-size limitations and other issues such as texture changes within the scene. Just to let you guys know :-)


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  • #214
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    By: mc-fine This person is cool! x
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    Why are people getting excited over freaking NSQ3. There are like 4 in-game screens. They have been there since the mod was first announced. The only thing it has over the S9MM and Urban Terror is that they have hand models. Are they trying to keep everything secret until release? And if they are then what makes people so sure gameplay will be all that? At the same time it would be nice to see something polished and well done with the Q3 engine seeing as id didn't pull that off.

    It would be nice to have id release a patch that improves the fonts in the game. Make the scoreboard neat and professional (not fisher price like it does), smaller death messages, fix the mouse click bug thats a pain while spectating and trying to ready up for the next level and make use of the mutiple death animations/sounds. A nice improvement of the in-game browser, good old Q3 camera that has both the usual 3d cam and chasecam. It would be nice to see a real Q3 patch that fine tunes some stuff in the game.
    Jul 05, 2000 7:14pm PDT
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    By: poke x
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    here's my 2 cents.

    first of all: S3 SUCKS. I am saying this over and over so that no one makes the mistake i did. never buy a Viper II. I don't care if you need a card TODAY and that's the only one. It isn't worth it. I know. Even Diablo2, 640x480x8bpp direct3d DOESN'T WORK. I have to run in 2d mode.

    Second, what are you forgetting? Oh I know . . . the most underrated new feature since sex . . . TwinView! i think it's hilarious how people respond to dualhead/twinview.

    "TWO MONITORS!"
    "why would you want that? just get a kvm[?] switch"
    "Two monitors with DIFFERENT THINGS ON THEM!"
    "why would you want that? just get a multiple desktop switch thing"
    "Two monitors with different things on them at the SAME TIME!"
    "that isn't worth it [even though i have a fucking huge monitor]"
    "here look at my system. Two monitors!"
    "holy shit! I want one!"

    okay that was a lot for just 2cents but i'm cheap the whole night only costs fo' dolla'
    Jul 05, 2000 5:01pm PDT