Nvidia's 'Nalu' vs ATI's 'Ruby'

"John Lewis" wrote in message
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:48:22 GMT, "somnambulist"
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"John Lewis" wrote in message
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:11:21 +1000, Minotaur
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Sorry to be picky, but I believe that the Xbox uses an Intel P3
733MHz, not an AMD processor.

You are indeed correct, but the XBox still uses the NForce chipset.


Huh ?

The Xbox uses the NV2A GPU and the MCPX multifunction
interface (including audio) both from nVidia. They were custom-built
parts for the console and any resemblance of the NV2A combo
GPU- Northbridge to the nForce IGP stops at the sharing of some
common internal design ideas.

See:-

http://hackingthexbox.com/

Thanks John, I stand (partially) corrected then!

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somnambulist

"Asestar" a s e s t a r @ s t a r t . n o wrote in message
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I mean with so realistic graphics, games just might get a new dimension to
them.

I can remember countless games where i'm supposed to protect someone /
rescue a hostage. Only those ill-fated moron "victums" were so stupid or
bad
looking that i ended up replaying the level, just because I shot them
myself.

One such example is Soldier Of Fortune 2 , single player campaign. I still
can't forget those horribly big/terrified (or sometimes missing...) eyes
of
hostages I was suppose to protect

It's just to bad that we are probably not going to see any of this latest
technology for a long time in our PC games. It's always cracks me up when a
new demo like Nalu comes out and everyone goes nuts and starts taking about
how great the new games are going to be. The demos are just that, tech demos
to show off what the cards can do. That sure doesn't translate into us
gamers actually seeing any of this stuff in our games. Think about how long
the "Dawn" has been around, or any of the cool looking ATI demos for that
matter. Do we have any games yet that look anything as good as say ATI's
"Nature" demo? Sure we have "Farcry" that looks great, but it's also killing
off most mid level PC's. And it is a long way from what some of the 2 year
plus demos look like. The problem is that for few game makers that are not
afraid to push the envelop, there's many more that want to sell as many
games as they can as cheaply as possible. So we are left playing games that
still are built around 4 year old code. JLC