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DX 9.1 and NV-big improvement in PS 2.0?

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ginfest

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Seen over at NV News

Original article in French here:PC Inpact

Might be some good news, combined with the 52.16 WHQL drivers that are due out supposedly has a 60% improvement in PS 2.0?

Check it out.


Mike G
 
The rumors I have heard has something to do with opening up the PS pipe and it allows some wait states or something.
Supposedly with the right drivers it was supposed to make their PS performance increase greatly. Apparently the orginal DX9\PS2.0 spec doesnt work real well with the NV3.x arch.

 
It must be early cuz the Fanchimps haven't already lit up this thread with accusations of "Longhorn being delayed until 2006 because M$ has to code around Nvidia's non-DX9-compliant garbage" and them being in bed blah-blah-woof-woof...

As usual, I'll believe it when I see it and will withhold judgement until official driver releases are in hand. Too many people making too many flat pronouncements based on sketchy info lately and this is no different IMO.
 
So does this mean Nvidia will have worked out the problem with HL2 before it's actually released? I'm shocked! 😉 I'm running a 9800 and even I thought the "shader day" discussions were funny! 😛
 
Originally posted by: DefRef
It must be early cuz the Fanchimps haven't already lit up this thread with accusations of "Longhorn being delayed until 2006 because M$ has to code around Nvidia's non-DX9-compliant garbage" and them being in bed blah-blah-woof-woof...

As usual, I'll believe it when I see it and will withhold judgement until official driver releases are in hand. Too many people making too many flat pronouncements based on sketchy info lately and this is no different IMO.
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It's not sketchy info... look at Anand's benchmarks using the 52.14's
 
If you look at the performance increase at the techreport in HL2, by moving from DX9 to DX8.1 for the 5900 --- it was 56.8%. So, maybe the drivers will automatically drop to DX8.1. A more likely story IMHO.
 
Doubtful....................................

Valve has said the 5900 will use DX9 paths. 5600 and 5200 will use DX8.

 
will nvidia catch up to the R9800P? Or just Directx8.1 performance with directx9 with this new found improvement?
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Originally posted by: DefRef
It must be early cuz the Fanchimps haven't already lit up this thread with accusations of "Longhorn being delayed until 2006 because M$ has to code around Nvidia's non-DX9-compliant garbage" and them being in bed blah-blah-woof-woof...

As usual, I'll believe it when I see it and will withhold judgement until official driver releases are in hand. Too many people making too many flat pronouncements based on sketchy info lately and this is no different IMO.
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It's not sketchy info... look at Anand's benchmarks using the 52.14's
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Show me FPS charts of the Dx9 games in the Anand review, because i can only find one game and it's not an FPs chart
 
So will this help only those cards based on the NV35 (5900, 5700), or will it benefit all of nV's children (5800, 5600, and *cough*5200*snicker*)?

I wonder if it's the new version of DX9 that will benefit nV, or the purported new version of the HLSL compiler that can now compile to PS2.0_a, specifically for the NV3x?
 
So either :

A) NVidia has a great driver team

or

B) NVidia users are initially buying cards with poor drivers

or

C) All the above

or

D) The glass is half empty .... no, it is half full .... no less filling ... tastes great .....
 
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