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Dark Avenger wrote:
> Judge <> wrote in message
> news:<ft0h6057q4duq3enu1eil1m5qkni16qk7a@4ax.com>...
> > From what I read the 5900 has some dx9 issues.. did they remedy them
> > in the xt / se series?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Judge
>
> The FX series of nvidia can do DX9, can do.. due to nvidia seemingly
> seeing the FX as a between stage card, between DX8 and DX9 it has
> happened that.. the cards are not as good as Ati in DX9 as ati just
> followed DX9 to the letter... while nvidia rather uesd their own
> little shader extension..to bad for nvidia... that following the
> standards is the best move.
>
> Simple said, the FX will do DX9... but... not as good and as
> beautifull as on a DX9 ati card.
>
> On the other hand, in OpenGL the FX series has definitly a better
> performance as ati cards.
>
> I guess in the end..it's all about choices.
The FX GPU did not modify any support for DirectX 9, rather, they added
their own instruction set.
Look at AMD processors, they feature the 3DNow! instruction set that
isn't included on the Intel processors.
This doesn't mean the functionality of either the ATI or NVIDIA GPUs
will be deterred from having or not having these extra instruction sets.
Look at 3DNow!. There are no optimizations or implementations for the
instruction set, and haven't been for 6 years... yet AMD continues to
implement it.
They're probably hoping that some developer will do something useful
with it, but there isn't any useful functionality... considering ALL of
the instructions in the set have been included in GPUs since the
Geforce 1.
However, Nvidia's instruction set won't fade.
They are working hand in hand with software developers to make sure
this gets done.
You haven't seen any ATI logos on game boxes lately, have you?
Nvidia is everywhere...