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NVidia Responds To HL2 Numbers

by Maarten Goldstein Sep 11, 2003 4:12pm CST tags: Half-Life 2, NVidia
Gamers Depot has posted NVidia's response to yesterday's Half-Life 2 benchmark day which was sponsored by ATI. They say newer drivers will show NVidia's products in a much better light when tested with Half-Life 2.
In addition to the developer efforts, our driver team has developed a next-generation automatic shader optimizer that vastly improves GeForce FX pixel shader performance across the board. The fruits of these efforts will be seen in our Rel.50 driver release. Many other improvements have also been included in Rel.50, and these were all created either in response to, or in anticipation of the first wave of shipping DirectX 9 titles, such as Half Life 2. ...
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