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..or is the end so soon? Here in this benchmark, where Nvidia cards usually perform better than their ATI counter-parts, the GTX 295 puts in good numbers, actually beating the HD 5970 in the lower resolutions. Surprsingly the HD 5970 only gets about 25% more frames than the HD 5870 in the Bio-bench here. We are going to presume that the Catalyst drivers need a bit more tweaking here.
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And if the PhysX in the game isn't being accelerated, then what the crap is this "stream processing" doing?
AMD and Nvidia will continue battling for the top graphics card until one of them either stops making them or, and this part is from me, until it is no longer necessary to make gpu's more powerful as there's probably more potential power to be used than there is actual use. Like with the holodecks then holograms that are being developed, after those are out and can take any game imaginable at 100% realistic graphics there's really nowhere to go except for more power efficiency.
What I want to know now is wtf will sci fi books write about in the future? Other than jedi mind control we're eventually going to hit a brick wall.
As for the physx support they dont support it per card like nvidia has a dedicated card, at least that's what it sounds like. But you can still run it.
And also this when I asked for clarificaton:
Seems ATI has some kind of equivalent to PhysX processing, but I have no idea if it really improves performance in any way compared to simply running PhysX on the CPU.
Any ideas what they meant?
You can run games with physx and have it enabled on ati cards but it will seriously slow the card down. At least that was the case in cryostasis, but that games main selling point other than the ambiance was the amount of physx used in the game.
Ati does have a bit of driver issues but you usually never have to roll them back like you have to do with nvidia's drivers if something goes wrong.
But when I tried to get some info out of them about their GF100 cards, they didn't even reply to say no they couldn't tell me anything.
ATI at least replied and told me some confusing jargon when I asked if their cards had any kind of PhysX support or equivalent. I had no idea what they were on about, but they replied!
Various issues include BSODs, flickering texture surfaces in games like Oblivion, strange... lagging light trails in games like X3 Reunion (engine trails leave a ghost image)...
Weird lines on the screen unless you turn off the second processing core...
Bloody hell. >_<
Why does ATI suck so much at drivers?
but you could always wait for a few more months, and im sure the price will drop significantly. it is only that expensive because its the best ATI has to offer.
Then I saw the price. Yeah, I don't think so. For that price they should personally customise my case to actually fit the damn card, and put my hard drives into drive bay caddies for me, as there's no way to leave those where they are right now and fit this monster.
What on earth were they thinking making it so long?
I COULD probably in theory manage to use this, but it would require the removal of my hard drive cage and the installation of three drive bay caddies.
I hope the Nvidia offering is SMALLER. My 8800GTX barely fits as it is.
The REAL question is....Will it be worth the extra cash? ATI cards will be cheaper to be sure.
I think if you put it in a folding farm you could fill up the pci-e x16 slots but not crossfire them and have it work. At least that's what ive seen some pics with nvidia cards doing. not sure if ati will work that way.
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