A Journey Across the Ocean: Shaders and R420

Dom · May 9, 2004, 11:13 AM

His report concerned the actual situation in ATI. He unveiled some of the company's plans and demonstrated R420's general readings. As you can see below, the company is not afraid of its rival's new product (NVIDIA NV40) and shows diagrams with R420's high performance. Of course, they keep silent about the fact that NV40 has shaders 3.0, while ATI's product doesn't. And when asked about that, the company's officials claim that there's yet no need of this technology so why expend transistors, dies, and human resources on it.

May 9, 2004, 11:13 AM	#1
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	A Journey Across the Ocean: Shaders and R420 His report concerned the actual situation in ATI. He unveiled some of the company's plans and demonstrated R420's general readings. As you can see below, the company is not afraid of its rival's new product (NVIDIA NV40) and shows diagrams with R420's high performance. Of course, they keep silent about the fact that NV40 has shaders 3.0, while ATI's product doesn't. And when asked about that, the company's officials claim that there's yet no need of this technology so why expend transistors, dies, and human resources on it. Full Article