I stumbled across the post below from Beyond3D and thought it might be of some interest to you guys as well as myself.
<< Hey guys,
Does anybody have any info on this? I found this to be rather interesting. A guy on the 3DGPU forum claims to have been contracted by STM to do this, and said it may have been put on the offical Kyro2 CD.
Here's his post.
quote:
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been reading all the stuff on the Kyro II pdf. I think its a storm in the preverbial tea-cup. I don't think its an official doc by Nvidia, maybe an internal doc of some sort etc or the work of a rogue staff member. I recently completed some work on Kyro II, and under the right conditions the card rocks! Something however that can be said for most other videocards demo stuff. I did a quick Quake 3 demo for STMicroelectonics in March to show off the KYRO II - and in most cases it beats the ULTRA, nevermind the MX. At the end of the day look at the cost of the card and the market its aimed at, if developers support the chipset then great, if they don't then Nvidia won't have to come up with better stuff quicker. I personally hope they do. I own a GTS and an MX, and wouldn't hesitate on buying a Kyro II - Its horses for courses.
In case anyone is interested here are some personal benchmarks I did during development, please realise that its a Q3 level with 4 or more layers of mulitexturing so the Nvidia cards are gonna hurt - hurt bad, and that I used machines that were available for dev purposes only. The image quality was MUCH better on the Kyro II. Whenever the floating objects (heads, pickups etc) went over the skies - which were 4 layer, the Nvidia cards lost the plot and left trails all over the place - nice little bonus that !
Kyro 2 benchmarks
monday march 5 2001 - finished dem
1024x768
71.7 kyro2 athlon 1000 at 166mhz
35.5 gforce 2 mx athlon 1000
59.3 gforce 2 ultra intel 1000
1280x1024
47.0 kyro2 athlon 1000 at 166mhz
49.9 kyro2 athlon 1000 at 175mhz
52.9 kyro2 athlon 1000 at 185mhz
22.4 gforce 2 mx athlon 1000
44.3 gforce 2 ultra intel 1000
1600x1200
32.6 kyro2 athlon 1000 at 166mhz
14.0 gforce2 mx athlon 1000
34.0 gforce2 ultra intel 1000
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If u guys could help me in my quest to track this level down, be much appreciated.
This really interested me as i am a bit dissapointed at the way graphics cards ramping towards "Toy Story" realism is just way too slow for my liking
It seems that maybe the Geforce3 aint going to be the card for long term investment after all, as it may struggle with high overdraw detailed scenes of next gen games
I aint dissing the GF3 guys, as i love the features it packs, just needs nVidia to get Gigapixel tech sorted asap.
Maybe if nVidia was to forget the 6 month upgrade for the GF3 and just go straight to GF4 then we might start getting somewhere yeah?
Any info on rumours for the GF4 be much appreciated
Please dont look upon this thread as a blatant troll, as it aint intended to be. Just be kinda nice to get u guys opinions on the state of vid cards at the moment, and what we may be looking at getting in the near future.
Thanx,
rockhard =)
<< Hey guys,
Does anybody have any info on this? I found this to be rather interesting. A guy on the 3DGPU forum claims to have been contracted by STM to do this, and said it may have been put on the offical Kyro2 CD.
Here's his post.
quote:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
been reading all the stuff on the Kyro II pdf. I think its a storm in the preverbial tea-cup. I don't think its an official doc by Nvidia, maybe an internal doc of some sort etc or the work of a rogue staff member. I recently completed some work on Kyro II, and under the right conditions the card rocks! Something however that can be said for most other videocards demo stuff. I did a quick Quake 3 demo for STMicroelectonics in March to show off the KYRO II - and in most cases it beats the ULTRA, nevermind the MX. At the end of the day look at the cost of the card and the market its aimed at, if developers support the chipset then great, if they don't then Nvidia won't have to come up with better stuff quicker. I personally hope they do. I own a GTS and an MX, and wouldn't hesitate on buying a Kyro II - Its horses for courses.
In case anyone is interested here are some personal benchmarks I did during development, please realise that its a Q3 level with 4 or more layers of mulitexturing so the Nvidia cards are gonna hurt - hurt bad, and that I used machines that were available for dev purposes only. The image quality was MUCH better on the Kyro II. Whenever the floating objects (heads, pickups etc) went over the skies - which were 4 layer, the Nvidia cards lost the plot and left trails all over the place - nice little bonus that !
Kyro 2 benchmarks
monday march 5 2001 - finished dem
1024x768
71.7 kyro2 athlon 1000 at 166mhz
35.5 gforce 2 mx athlon 1000
59.3 gforce 2 ultra intel 1000
1280x1024
47.0 kyro2 athlon 1000 at 166mhz
49.9 kyro2 athlon 1000 at 175mhz
52.9 kyro2 athlon 1000 at 185mhz
22.4 gforce 2 mx athlon 1000
44.3 gforce 2 ultra intel 1000
1600x1200
32.6 kyro2 athlon 1000 at 166mhz
14.0 gforce2 mx athlon 1000
34.0 gforce2 ultra intel 1000
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>
If u guys could help me in my quest to track this level down, be much appreciated.
This really interested me as i am a bit dissapointed at the way graphics cards ramping towards "Toy Story" realism is just way too slow for my liking
It seems that maybe the Geforce3 aint going to be the card for long term investment after all, as it may struggle with high overdraw detailed scenes of next gen games
I aint dissing the GF3 guys, as i love the features it packs, just needs nVidia to get Gigapixel tech sorted asap.
Maybe if nVidia was to forget the 6 month upgrade for the GF3 and just go straight to GF4 then we might start getting somewhere yeah?
Any info on rumours for the GF4 be much appreciated
Please dont look upon this thread as a blatant troll, as it aint intended to be. Just be kinda nice to get u guys opinions on the state of vid cards at the moment, and what we may be looking at getting in the near future.
Thanx,
rockhard =)