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That link was an interesting read -- especially the bit about Creative Labs
buying out 3DLabs. Is it possible Creative Labs will bring 3DLabs GPU's to
the consumer market as competition to Nvidia/ATI?
I remember the high hopes for the S3 Savage4 GPU/chipset. There used to be
four 2 five competitors in the 3D vid-card arena: S3, 3DFX, Matrox, Nvidia
and ATI. Now there's only two. Has Matrox given up the ghost?
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"First of One" <daxinfx@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> Is this a vid-card made for graphics designers/ACAD professionals?
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> The GPU's design actually predates the Radeon 9700 / Geforce 5800. As such
> it does not have full floating-point capability throughout the pipeline.
> See http://www.beyond3d.com/articles/p10tech/
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>> Is it any good for gaming?
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> The hardware is, but the drivers are not optimized for gaming. CAD and DCC
> place different demands on the card, with emphasis on geometry
> performance. Apps and games involving large textures and complex vertex-
> and pixel shader operations will suffer on this card.
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>> Does 3dLabs make any gaming video card chipsets?
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> This chipset is as close to "gaming-level" as it gets for 3DLabs.
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