• Nvidia: DirectX 11 is not important
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[QUOTE=Forumaster;17397532]Good sir, you are dead wrong.[/QUOTE] Would it be better with just one? Prices would go sky high.
[QUOTE=nVidia;17397579]Would it be better with just one? Prices would go sky high.[/QUOTE] It would be better to have 3-4...
[QUOTE=Split3ndz;17397764]It would be better to have 3-4...[/QUOTE] That'd be awesome. It's just not going to happen.
There are 3 companies, everybody forgets the first one because it's used so often. Nvidia is actually 2nd place, ATI is in 3rd place.
[QUOTE=TheDecryptor;17399753]There are 3 companies, everybody forgets the first one because it's used so often. Nvidia is actually 2nd place, ATI is in 3rd place.[/QUOTE] Intel and the Intel GMA?
Yeah, Intel is the number 1 GPU maker. Talking about total GPU's, not just ones liked by gamers.
there's another SiS or something?
Intel Gpu's are shit for gaming though haha.
are they fucking kidding LOL A GRAPHICS CARD CUMPUNY DAT DUSNT MAKE MOAR GRAFIX :downs:
[QUOTE=BananasGoMoo;17360291]:buddy:[/QUOTE] hehe, moo you always use that.
[QUOTE=Funcoot;17395394]The Steam population isn't the winning factor though. At the end of the day, OEM sales really decides if a company lives or dies. AMD and Intel couldn't survive alone on just enthusiasts and people who build their own systems. Your parents, grand parents, brothers, and sisters are making more of an impact than most of us are.[/QUOTE] Most of the Steam population are tech newbs that wouldn't have an idea how to build a PC and just know there are pretty numbers on their card.
Wow, you leetards are reading too much into this. Nvidia is not going under. Where did you get such a stupid idea? What is going on here is that ATi announces a DX 11 card. Investor relations guy is simply responding to this development in order to keep investors from selling their stock in the company. Nvidia is working on implementing DX 11, don't worry. I mean, seriously. One company has to be the first to implement some arbitrary feature. If the other company downplays that feature, it is meant to make the first company look foolish for wasting money on a useless feature. (whether or not that feature was actually important or not is beside the point. It is just posturing.) It certainly [I]does not mean they are failing.[/I] That is a complete stretch and unsubstantiated by this evidence. Dare I say [B]irresponsible speculation?[/B]
I don't think anyone said NVIDIA is going under.
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Jesus Christ, they said it's not important, doesn't mean they aren't going to support it. *facepalm IRL* You guys try too hard sometimes.
[QUOTE=compwhizii;17357923]"It's not important because we can't do it right now"[/QUOTE] They can do it right now. The chips taped-out some time ago
[QUOTE=Psygo;17396356]I'm not going to upgrade to a 5870, the benchmarks didn't convince me to throw out my GTX 295 just yet.[/QUOTE] My 640MB 8800GTS is showing it's age though, and a 5870 would be a HUGE upgrade for me. [img]http://d2k5.com/sa_emots/biggrin.gif[/img]
[QUOTE=Pixel Heart;17405515]My 640MB 8800GTS is showing it's age though, and a 5870 would be a HUGE upgrade for me. [img]http://d2k5.com/sa_emots/biggrin.gif[/img][/QUOTE] Anything would be huge upgrade from a GTS. And I speak from experience.
[QUOTE=Pixel Heart;17405515]My 640MB 8800GTS is showing it's age though, and a 5870 would be a HUGE upgrade for me. [img]http://d2k5.com/sa_emots/biggrin.gif[/img][/QUOTE] Yeah, hoping to go from the same card to a 5870 here, really starting to notice the struggling in newer games.
[QUOTE=Gray Altoid;17405534]Anything would be huge upgrade from a GTS. And I speak from experience.[/QUOTE] ...it was $400.00 when it first came out, and it was all I could afford back in Feb of 2007, when the 8x00 series was first released. [img]http://d2k5.com/sa_emots/emot-argh.gif[/img]
I'm upgrading from HD2400 to 5870 2gb. If [B]that[/B] isn't an upgrade, then [B]what is?[/B]
Personally, I'm going to lean towards DirectX11, since it comes with OpenCL, which will allow GPGPU on all Directx11 capable cards. I like ATi better at this point in time because of their value for money and the fact that they're of a cunt, however NVidia has more support for CUDA and PhysX, so hopefully OpenCL might make the 2 platforms equal in terms of GPGPU support. [editline]01:54PM[/editline] [QUOTE=nVidia;17397579]Would it be better with just one? Prices would go sky high.[/QUOTE] No, you're wrong my saying there are 2 CPU/GPU manufacturers. There are a shitoad of manufacturers, just the only ones useful to PC gamers are Intel/AMD and Nvidia/ATI
Considering that most games that are created nowadays still don't use DX10, there is a legitimate point in not selling DX11 cards this early.
Not really. The more hardware and software supports it the sooner it makes sense to comapnies to use DX10. (Or 11)
[QUOTE=Evilan;17406676]Considering that most games that are created nowadays still don't use DX10, there is a legitimate point in not selling DX11 cards this early.[/QUOTE] IMO dx10 was just something to get vista sold.
[QUOTE=nVidia;17409667]IMO dx10 was just something to get vista sold.[/QUOTE] You probably aren't far off in your opinion. Although, games like Crysis, Eve, and Farcry 2 that do have DX10 do look pretty damn good.
[QUOTE=nVidia;17385706]Ati wins! Mwuahahahhaha!!![/QUOTE] Ironic eh.
DX10's main features (like DX11's) were underlying, unlike earlier versions where the bump in a version number meant a bump in graphical quality. Try running multipled windowed DirectX applications at once under XP, then try it again under Vista, that's DirectX 10.
[QUOTE=nVidia;17409667]IMO dx10 was just something to get vista sold.[/QUOTE] IMO the moon is a lie. DX10 have some very real technical improvements.
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