[Issac Osis]

According to this tidbit on firingsquad.com

NVIDIA's servers are getting a beating for this one. Up on their servers are new drivers called Detonator XP. According to NVIDIA, they can offer a performance increase ranging anywhere from 30 to 50%. As always, they support NVIDIA's entire lineup of cards from the TNT and up:
Some of the highlights for Detonator XP v21.81:
- Performance increases of up to 50%
- Highly optimized DirectX� and OpenGL� pipelines
- New OpenGL 1.3 ICD with NVIDIA extensions
- Full hardware acceleration of Windows XP, including:
- Fastest Windows XP 2D and 3D performance
- NVIDIA XPress link
- Full hardware acceleration for the new Windows XP graphical user interface

Has Nvidia done the same thing with Quartz as it has with GDI+???

Are drivers based on this in 10.1 ?

Will we see a quartz accelerating Nforce PPC chipset in the new iMacs?

If XP can be "fully" hardware accelerated can OS X?
(I understand how quartz works)


Thoughts...?

[groverat]

The DetonatorXP drivers are godlike.

[Scott_H]

You've tried them goverat?


IMO Quartz acceleration aint that big of a deal. Quartz = vectors and most of what's on the screen aint vectors. You think your G4 is bother by some vectors? Naw.

Originally posted by Scott_H:
<STRONG>IMO Quartz acceleration aint that big of a deal. Quartz = vectors and most of what's on the screen aint vectors. You think your G4 is bother by some vectors? Naw.</STRONG>

I think it's more how Quartz draws than what it draws. The faster your pipeline to main memory where all the compositing happens the better your OS X graphics performance is going to be.

There is (or was) supposed to be a way to mark a window as non-buffered if it was the front-most, but I think that has gone the way of the pop-up folder.

[Scrod]

Originally posted by &lt;jethro&gt;:
<STRONG>
I think it's more how Quartz draws than what it draws. The faster your pipeline to main memory where all the compositing happens the better your OS X graphics performance is going to be.</STRONG>

Heh. Now wouldn't it be nice if Apple could actually use something faster than SDRAM and a 133MHz bus?

[OverclockedHomoSapien]

I think companies like Nvidia and ATI have guys like MIlton from Office Space sitting in their basements and writing the drivers for Mac video cards. We're never going to see "Godlike" video drivers for OS X, ever.

[edddeduck]

DDR has a slow ramp up time than SD DIMMs

In normal speed DDR its max amout of data per second is alot better than SD DIMMS

BUT

The time it takes to get to max speed is slower on DDR...

Thats what I read so although DDR is better its not the best thing since sliced bread

[iCartman]

I have to agree with groverat, these new drivers are amazing. It's like getting a video card upgrade for free!!

OSX will gain the speed benefits of OpenGL 1.3, it's up to Apple on wether anything else will (or can) be accelerated.