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I was speaking with the ATi rep at the T.O. AMD Tech Tour (heh).
He said:
"It will have a 128bit floating point colour system!"
So I commented and said how carmack let it slip that the newer hardware has done a good thing with increasing the colour depth of graphics cards and he finished my sentence by saying;
"he (referring to carmack) said that 64bit colour wasn't enough! Yeah thats why the r300 supports more then needed...if there is such a thing. Basically when we release the R300 the whole industry will take a step back, and realize they are behind...r300 is truly ground breaking: Full DX9 support, which is as big a leap from DX8.1 as DX8.1 was to DX7, precision calculations both on polygon and texture information, and a whole host of other stuff that I can't really comment on."
He also said:
"You have no idea. The sample that Doom]I[ ran on was both ALPHA hardware as well as ALPHA drivers....the way the card is now (referring to its alpha stage) it can do 14XXX+ 3Dmarks...we will definately do our best to get it higher. Also realize that we haven't determined the final clock speeds either...the pics you have probably seen on various sites show a PRE PRE engineering sample....
Basically we WILL have a show stopper. The R300 will revolutionize the way we see graphics. In fact nothing will even be able to compete with us until Februray or March of 2k3 (I think he was talking about nVidias 6month cycle)."
He said it will be out late Q3...or late fall...
Also nVidia was pushing the nForce stuff...they said the were definately sticking with it..its not just a one time thing....also there will be a DX8.1 line of nForce (pixel and vertex shaders) coming out soon and if you check up on computex there is already some leaked info on it.
-Rogue5-
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Last edited by FrgMstr on 06-17-2002 at 05:33 PM
het topic: http://www.hardforums.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=5063985#post5063985
I was speaking with the ATi rep at the T.O. AMD Tech Tour (heh).
He said:
"It will have a 128bit floating point colour system!"
So I commented and said how carmack let it slip that the newer hardware has done a good thing with increasing the colour depth of graphics cards and he finished my sentence by saying;
"he (referring to carmack) said that 64bit colour wasn't enough! Yeah thats why the r300 supports more then needed...if there is such a thing. Basically when we release the R300 the whole industry will take a step back, and realize they are behind...r300 is truly ground breaking: Full DX9 support, which is as big a leap from DX8.1 as DX8.1 was to DX7, precision calculations both on polygon and texture information, and a whole host of other stuff that I can't really comment on."
He also said:
"You have no idea. The sample that Doom]I[ ran on was both ALPHA hardware as well as ALPHA drivers....the way the card is now (referring to its alpha stage) it can do 14XXX+ 3Dmarks...we will definately do our best to get it higher. Also realize that we haven't determined the final clock speeds either...the pics you have probably seen on various sites show a PRE PRE engineering sample....
Basically we WILL have a show stopper. The R300 will revolutionize the way we see graphics. In fact nothing will even be able to compete with us until Februray or March of 2k3 (I think he was talking about nVidias 6month cycle)."
He said it will be out late Q3...or late fall...
Also nVidia was pushing the nForce stuff...they said the were definately sticking with it..its not just a one time thing....also there will be a DX8.1 line of nForce (pixel and vertex shaders) coming out soon and if you check up on computex there is already some leaked info on it.
-Rogue5-
Post edited to remove expletives for front page posting. Meaningful content not changed at all.
Last edited by FrgMstr on 06-17-2002 at 05:33 PM
het topic: http://www.hardforums.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=5063985#post5063985
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