gfFX isn''t out yet so we''ll let time tell on that one. He asked why use CG, and that''s one of the valid answers. and settle down with this "sell your soul" crap, at the heart of every corporation(ATI, nVidia, Microsoft, Sun, Oracle) is someone who just wants your money, they could give a crap so don''t act like nVidia is an exception.

quote:Original post by davepermen
espencially all the named radeons, wich have bigger capabilities than every geforce except gfFX.

you honestly believe that the radeon 8500 is a better card than my Geforce 4 Ti 4600?

quote:Original post by davepermen
and nobody shall ever buy a gfFX anyways:D (check all the tests, benchmarks etc..).

this I do agree with. Nvidia I think has essentally destroyed themselves with the GFFX. For a card that is supposed to be 6 months more advanced technologically than the 9700, it really has shown no benefits over it. Plus ATI has the 9800 coming out fairly soon. I think Nvidia''s time is over.

Not to steer away from the subject too much or anything but I''d say to give NVidia some time.

I think they took a big risk developing the new chip architecture when they did and it is hurting them but it also gauranteed they''re place in the next gen cards. ATI will have to do the same research and development and probably will have a card that isn''t up to par, just like the FX. From a business model perspective, I''d say ATI chose to hold out on the development, let NVidia take the initial risk, and produce a good card and make money in the short term. Long term however, they''ll still need to get into the smaller chip architecture and it might effect sales later on. I''ll be interested in seeing what both companies cards look like later this year.

As for the shaders, this isn''t something I''ve looked at enough to really formulate an opinion yet and its probably way above my head anyway at this point I do remember reading/hearing that there wasn''t a real shader standard, each manufacturer was developing something different. Since DirectX 9 has something built in I''d suggest that since its independant from a specific manufacturer and it may become a standard. Just a guess anyway

Dotren

glslang is the OpenGL shader language. there''s a draft of the spec here: http://www.opengl.org/developers/documentation/gl2_workgroup/