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It's coming!!!!

yup it's coming, and then 2 yrs from now games that will benefit from it, at the same time you have something current that is 4 generations ahead of it.
 
Geforce 3

Taken from the link above:

"The fact that we are able to bring this first to you on the Mac is the result of a partnership that's growing between Nvidia and Apple," said Jobs.

The GeForce3 will be available as a BTO option on the Power Mac G4 both for resellers and end-users in late March, $600 (68,000 yen).

"The GeForce3 is the most exciting thing" that his company has had to work with in years, said Carmack.

Carmack also mentioned that Id used Maya to develop the animation loops shown to the Expo keynote crowd.

John Carmack of Id Software demonstrated a new in-development gaming engine. Carmack says that GeForce3 makes it possible for objects in the engine to react the same way that they would in real-life, with realistic lighting, shadows and other effects.

Jobs called the GeForce3 a "real revolution."

Jobs talked about the hours needed to render individual seconds of Luxo Jr ., the first Pixar movie, on a Cray supercomputer -- Kirk demonstrated Nvidia's interpretation of Luxo Jrand showed the cinematic effects being done in real-time.

"Have you seen Toy Story?" questioned Jobs. Jobs talked about the work that goes into the development of computer graphics and animation.

David Kirk, Nvidia chief scientist, demonstrated the GeForce 3.

"We've developed a great relationship with them," said Jobs.

"The most advanced graphics chip ever," said Jobs.

Nvidia and Apple are announcing the next generation of graphics processors -- the GeForce 3.

The new iMac's are so butt ugly though.
 


<< yup it's coming, and then 2 yrs from now games that will benefit from it, at the same time you have something current that is 4 generations ahead of it. >>



No. Games will instantly benefit from it. Higher resolution at higher framerates, greatly improved FSAA, and of course, much better texture filtering methods. 64 tap anisotropic virtually eliminates texture shimmering/aliasing, and greatly improves texture quality.

Leon
 
Greatly improved FSAA? Not sure about that. Its performance will be better, but its edge AA quality probably won't be significantly improved, at least not at equivalent samples. The 64-tap anisotropic filtering will be nice, though I hear it's currently causing around 30% frame rate hit just by itself (add that to FSAA's performance penalties and, well. . . .).
 
Leon: still isnt worth the high price, and you can bet 64-tap anisotropic filtering will be a nice perf hit.
 
Check out this video feed of the Geforce 3 in action, including a demo of Doom 3 running on a Geforce 3. Pretty cool. If I didn't have a girlfriend to spend money on, I'd probably get a Geforce 3. Geforce 3 video
 
Heh, speaking of Game Theatre XP, just got it a few weeks ago. Much, much better then Platinum 5.1. Much less of a resource hog, more outs, dedicated headphone amp.
 
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