John Carmack mentions R8500

[nexus_alpha]

Dependent texture reads are the only really new thing in the last year or two (and only really got worked out right in the Radeon 8500), but next year is going to see floating point pixel formats, which was going to be one of Bali's truly important points. We should also see highly scalable boards built on consumer chips, which has been promised for years, but (with the exception of some 3dfx high end systems) not delivered properly.

John Carmack
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[HolyGrenade]

The Average Financially Well off gamer has probably been through 3 or four upgrades in that space of time spending about $700 - $800? Worth it for this much change?

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[Intel_inside]

well carmack is betting that by the time doom3 comes out everyone will have a geforce3 or equivelant.. I remember him saying something about doom3 running at 30fps on a gf3 with full detail on. That's pretty crazy, because 60fps is the minimum most people expect games to run at these days.

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