 |
 |
HalfLife 2 Benchies ATI vs Nvidia
|
|
|
|
|
Banned
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: In your backyard!!!
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
(
Last edited by Ken Masters; Sep 13, 2003 at 08:11 AM.
)
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Western MA
Status:
Offline
|
|
ATI is looking pretty good these days.
Does anyone know if they are going to port Half-Life 2 to OS X? I remember something about the first Half-life being cancelled after it was all ready to port over. Some legal issues as I recall.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: New Jersey
Status:
Offline
|
|
That's an amazing difference. ATI has released some superior products over the last year compared to nVidia. It's great to see some competition finally get back into the marketplace.
I wonder how a port of Half Life II would perform on the Mac platform. I guess it's an advantage that the Powermac pretty much ships with ATI cards.
|
|
Dual 1 ghz MDD with 80 gig and 1.25 DDR
17' Flat Panel Studio Display
14' 800 mhz iBook 30 gig and 256 SDRAM
20 gig iPOD
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Stuck in 19*53
Status:
Offline
|
|
Slashdot quotes a NVIDIA press release which says that at the time of the Valve press conference new drivers were available for their cards that "would make for vast, legitimate performance improvements."
|
"I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged." -- Roger Jones
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Banned
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: In your backyard!!!
Status:
Offline
|
|
Can you really trust Nvidia with these drivers???
Remember the futurmark benchies?
Hehehe, remember Voodoo???
Back in the days, 3DFX claimed that 32bit has no significant difference to 16 bits, and their cards were just as good. (They ended up bankrupt) 
Funny? That�s exactly what Nvidia is claiming right now with their FX cards
-----------------------
Porting Half Life 2 -> Os X, hm.... just wondering wouldn't the Mac need an app like or equivilent to Direct X9 or is open GL good enough?
(
Last edited by Ken Masters; Sep 14, 2003 at 04:02 AM.
)
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Stuck in 19*53
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Ken Masters:
Can you really trust Nvidia with these drivers???
Can you trust Valve with these benchmarks? Maybe, maybe not. It's a bit suspicious that they released these at an ATI event though.
To quote Slashdot, "if the Inquirer is to be believed, the bundling deal [their OEM bundling deal with ATI] was a result of an outright auction."
|
"I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged." -- Roger Jones
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: BFE
Status:
Offline
|
|
With values as low as the NVidia cards are seeing, it has to be drivers. But without good drivers, no video card is worth a crap.
|
I'm a bird. I am the 1% (of pets).
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Banned
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: In your backyard!!!
Status:
Offline
|
|
[quote] originally posted by soul searching
Can you trust Valve with these benchmarks? Maybe, maybe not. It's a bit suspicious that they released these at an ATI event though.
Yes,
I don't see why a company like valve would want to cripple NFX's since Nividia like owns*80% of the market (guessing here). I don't see why they would want to wish crappy fram rates upon their valuable customers.
Bags of ca$$ from ATI???
well how much money do you think Valve would lose because after seeing all this, Nividia customers won't want 2 buy their game because their graphics cards suck so much?
30fps on thier top of the line card? Which maybe could be higher *if they use a driver that's not even released and doesn't even render all necesarry requirements.
(
Last edited by Ken Masters; Sep 14, 2003 at 09:16 AM.
)
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top