Originally posted by: Dean
If you are looking to play Doom3, so far it seems its going to play better on a nvidia 5900, Doom3 is tailor made for nv30+. The 5900 also plays current games very well and should do ok on future titles
Doom3 isnt tailor made for nV30+ cards, Its just got a seperate rendering path for nV30 cards, something which by the time Doom3 is released, R300+ cards will have their own render path, or a generic render path that performs the same as the nV30 one.
If you are looking forward to half life2 and other DX9 games that use shaders go with the Radeon 9800+, half life2 is tailor made for the r300+.
Half-Life 2 aint tailor made for R300+`s either. Its just been demoed on a R350. Which doesnt mean it`ll run better on ATI hardware, as above, it`ll run around the same on an equilivent nVidia card.
The 9800 plays current games very well also and should do fine on future titles
True. Hell, even the 9500pro is fast enough for quite some time.
Some people say the Nvidia card is more future proof but its actually the ATI card that is. It has a far superior shader and dx9 engine than its nvidia counterpart.
Actually, they are about the same. ATI`s pixel & vertex shaders are faster than nVidias, and support longer instructions, but it does not make it more futureproof. A developer is likely to program a game to use the lowest common denominator, in this case the Pixel/Vertex capibilites of a R300, which then allows the game to run on R300+ cards, and nV30+ cards.
BTY, are the nV35s true DX9 parts?
Cos the nV30`s wernt, cos they did`nt support displacment mapping.
So does the nV35 now support Displacement mapping or not? I havnt heard much about it.