I read this article in Gamespy today:
"Based on the feature set, the Radeon 8500 should be a faster card for Doom than the GF4, because it can do the seven texture accesses that I need in a single pass, while it takes two or three passes (depending on details) on the GF4. However, in practice, the GF4 consistently runs faster due to a highly efficient implementation. For programmers, the 8500 has a much nicer fragment path than the GF4, with more general features and increased precision, but the driver quality is still quite a ways from Nvidia's, so I would be a little hesitant to use it as a primary research platform. "
And also lets not forget that the Doom 3 demon on E3 was running on a new ATI card model that hasnt been announced yet...
...Is it possible that the game will run better on the upcoming (or the currently existing) ATI cards? What do you think folks?
"Based on the feature set, the Radeon 8500 should be a faster card for Doom than the GF4, because it can do the seven texture accesses that I need in a single pass, while it takes two or three passes (depending on details) on the GF4. However, in practice, the GF4 consistently runs faster due to a highly efficient implementation. For programmers, the 8500 has a much nicer fragment path than the GF4, with more general features and increased precision, but the driver quality is still quite a ways from Nvidia's, so I would be a little hesitant to use it as a primary research platform. "
And also lets not forget that the Doom 3 demon on E3 was running on a new ATI card model that hasnt been announced yet...
...Is it possible that the game will run better on the upcoming (or the currently existing) ATI cards? What do you think folks?