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Deftech

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Beyond3d Talks Ati R500
« on: June 13, 2005, 08:36:00 PM »
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http://www.beyond3d....articles/xenos/

hope this wasnt a repost, just saw this.

Looks like it was written today so enjoy...

get out the popcorn and tylenol, I got a headache from trying to understand some of it  pop.gif

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Deftech

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« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2005, 06:33:00 PM »
QUOTE(Wedding-shirt @ Jun 14 2005, 06:16 PM)
Thanks for posting the link to that article. I thought it was a great read.
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« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2005, 10:40:00 AM »
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As all the sampling units for frame buffer operations are multiplied to work optimally with 4x FSAA this is actually the maximum mode available. Although the developer can choose to use 2x or no FSAA, there are no FSAA levels available higher than 4x.

So it seems M$ is not requiring AA like some speculated.  wink.gif


QUOTE(Deftech @ Jun 14 2005, 08:44 PM)
todays pc's cards dont come close to this bad boy. Go find interviews with Ati reps from the past year. They say its like nothing anyone has ever seen.

In different ways. The PC GFX chip will always have a far superior fillrate. 1080i is nowhere close to the same amount of pixels as say 1600x1200+(and up) on a PC monitor.
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« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2005, 12:13:00 PM »
QUOTE(Wedding-shirt @ Jun 15 2005, 03:11 PM)
Actually the article was talking in terms of the hardware's capabilities.
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« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2005, 01:18:00 PM »
QUOTE(deftonesmx17 @ Jun 15 2005, 12:51 PM)
...So it seems M$ is not requiring AA like some speculated.  wink.gif
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« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2005, 08:58:00 PM »
QUOTE(twistedsymphony @ Jun 15 2005, 09:29 PM)
We went over this in another thread... just because you can turn off the lights doesn't mean you're allowed to... I could shoot you in the head but that doesn't make it legal. likewise... you can turn of AA but MS is not allwoing developers to do so.
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« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2005, 10:15:00 AM »
QUOTE(blackchild1101 @ Jun 15 2005, 11:09 PM)
Right... but I beleive Nvidia has a PC card that has 24 pipes but I could be wrong though. dry.gif
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