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6 hours ago
Stalker has the advantage of the new multi-threading built into DirectX 11. As long as your on Vista/7 and have DirectX 11 installed, you can take advantage of it. It doesn't need a DX11 GPU to work. Games such as Stalker that are made around DX11 are seeing the huge increase in performance this brings. So it's not so much that STALKER is optimized more, but that it's taking advantage of some new DirectX technology to increase game performance. You'll see the same happen with Crysis 2. It's going to run so well and looks so amazing.

I've recently been playing Dirt 2, and I'm amazed at how well it runs. It seems it's coding is very GPU based. View
7 hours ago
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7 hours ago
Uhh.. How exactly is this their only counter? Nvidia is merely stating one of the new features of their upcoming Fermi architecture.

They already released most of the details of what's new in Fermi with the whitepaper they released a couple months back:

http://www.nvidia.com/conte...

Although a lot of what's in it you probably don't have the tech knowledge to make sense of. But it's a good read none the less. View
19 hours ago
No it doesn't for sure kwyjibo. The Tesla cards require more power due to the larger RAM size and clocks. In order to bring power consumption down, they would need to disable one of the core clusters. It's ok for them to push the max TDP for the consumer cards. But when it comes to the Tesla cards, they have to make sure they do not go over, as these cards/chips are packed together in large server racks a lot of the time. And going over by even a bit, spread across a large amount of these cards would create a big problem for the user.

Another reason could be for redundancy. By making a chip with 512 cores, but only saying you need 448 of them. You can increase chip yields a lot more. As you have 64 cores to spare in case of chip abnormalities. This gives them more yields to choose the cream of the crop chips from, and use the remaining for GTX 360's. View
1 day 5 hours ago
What, you expect Nvidia to just sit around and say nothing until they have enough chips ready to ship? That's corporate suicide. View
3 days 19 hours ago
Yeah, hopefully this goes through. It will be good not just for Nvidia, but the whole industry. Sad that it's going to take so many months just to make it to court though. View
5 days 11 hours ago
Let's count the features shall we:

Nvidia:
Natively execute C/C++/FORTRAN code
CUDA - (These first two things require more complex/larger cores.)
PhysX
3D Vision
WHQL Certified fully functioning OpenCL

ATI:
Eyefinity - (This only requires a small addition beside the ROP's.)
OpenCL

And that's not counting all the programmer/developer side of things that Nvidia has implemented in their architecture.

http://www.nvidia.com/conte...

Yes ATI's drivers are stable enough, that's not what I was saying. It's the in general stability across the user base. ATI is known for having more bugs in drivers and having more users experience issues than Nvidia does. Nvidia has a lot larger development team. Just do some research on it and you'll learn about that.

And I'm an ATI user. My last Nvidia card was a GeForce4 MX 4000 LOL. View
5 days 11 hours ago
You don't seem to be understand the context of their statements. They are not saying that DX11 doesn't matter. They are merely saying there is no rush AT THE MOMENT. This isn't an opinion, it's a damn fact of the industry. And yes of course they are trying to ease the minds of investors also. One has to do that to help bring good success.

And sure nobody knows how fast for sure, but you can make rough guesses based on the hardware white-paper that was released. Since Fermi will have double the cores, it's going to take back the performance crown it had over the 4000 series. As both teams will have doubled core counts.

The rest is unknown, like how much more or less of a performance advantage it will have due to the plethora of changes the Fermi architecture brings.

And yes brand fanaticism is stupid. And so is making claims without actually looking at the data. View
5 days 14 hours ago
@hoops:
Actually that's not why they run cooler. They run cooler because they have a smaller die size and memory bus in comparison to similar powered Nvidia cards. Because Nvidia's cores are designed with CUDA/GPGPU in mind, they take up a lot more space. And thus more heat is created and a bigger card..

Also, Nvidia's drivers are known for being much more reliable/stable than ATI's. Mainly due to Nvidia's much larger driver design team since they can afford it. View
5 days 15 hours ago
They're hardly talking crap lol. They are stating the reality of the situation. There is no rush to get DX11 cards out yet.

And Nvidia has DX11 capable cards ready. It's just that TSMC has been having very sh*tty 40nm yields, and Nvidia had to push for another chip revision to increase yields. Delaying the release of their DX11 cards until January.

So their DX11 cards are coming out very soon, way before ATI will have a die shrink out. Nvidia is only being 2-3 months late to the DX11 game, that's hardly anything to whine about. Especially considering the revolutionary new architecture Nvidia will be releasing. It was inevitable that they would be a bit later to the game than ATI, since ATI is waiting until 2011 to do their new architecture, and only had to do another core increase and slight modifications like they did with 3000 and 4000 series. View
5 days 17 hours ago
Would have been great if it weren't for the fact it only has rum, coke, water. View
5 days 18 hours ago
Oh, and I don't know what reviews you've been reading, but the 5870 doesn't beat a GTX 295. It's beats the single GPU GTX 285's sometimes, but not always.

And this is against Nvidia's now old generation compared to ATI's new 5000 series generation. Come Jan/Feb Nvidia will be taking the performance crown back. View
5 days 18 hours ago
@zag: The ATI 5000 series is not a new architecture haha. It's basically two 4000 series chips merged together. ATI has stated that their new architecture is coming in 2011. The 5000 series is not a new architecture. Learn more about the subject your talking about before spouting claims like that. Every new generation of cards is not a new architecture. ATI's last new architecture was the HD 2000 series. And Nvidia's was the 8000 series.

And the ASUS Mars doesn't have two GTX295's in it. It has two GTX 285's, which are single chip GPU's. GTX 295's have two GTX 285's in them. Basically the Mars is a GTX 295, with a lot more memory and higher clocks. View
6 days 7 hours ago
Care to elaborate CrippleH? View
6 days 10 hours ago
Try reading the last line:

"in the broader picture".

Nvidia is bringing out a whole new architecture this time, and quite an advanced one at that. Whereas ATI is still using the same arch it's been using since the 2000 series. So obviously Nvidia is going to be a bit late this time. And ATI's new architecture isn't coming out until late 2011.

In the grand scheme of things DX11, it's all good. There aren't enough DX11 games out yet for it to matter much. So Nvidia is safe releasing in Jan/Feb. As most of the good stuff will start coming out in the mid of 2010 and beyond. View
6 days 10 hours ago
Oh yeah.. Cause a whole new architecture is made without funding right?

Nvidia spends way more on just their architecture/card development than AMD spends on everything they develop combined. View
7 days 9 hours ago
Either that, or your GPU is overheating. Download/Pirate a version of "EVEREST Ultimate Edition" and watch your Temperatures. View
7 days 21 hours ago
Yeah, get some of that 22nm love up in heeya! haha View
7 days 21 hours ago
It's not that closed case.

What Nvidia has done is create a GPU architecture that is capable of running C/C++/FORTRAN code natively. (currently with CUDA extensions until Fermi comes). They can't just make CUDA not proprietary, it wouldn't matter. ATI would still need to completely redesign their architecture to work like Nvidia's. And Nvidia would need to share a lot of it's intellectual property with them.

CUDA is more an architecture than it is software. View
8 days 15 hours ago
Yeah, if anything Fudzilla has been pro Nvidia for quite some time now. It's only recently that they seem to have started changing bias. View
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