I've been working feverishly on this HL2 CPU Scaling article, I was hoping to have it done by the end of this week but it will be done (for sure) for publication next week. I've done CPU scaling charts for about half of the cards now, I've only got 1 more PCI Express card and then I move onto the AGP cards. Depending on how much time I have (and/or how sick of Half Life 2 benchmarking I am), I may do some GPU/memory bandwidth scaling on a card per card basis as well to find out where the limitations with the various GPUs lie.
It looks like there finally may be some resolution to the NVIDIA's Video Processor fiasco, I'm hoping for a public release of the driver by the end of this year but that's pure speculation on my part.
Next week I'll be making a trip up to ATI's Mac offices in Massachusetts, which will mark the first Mac related AT trip I will have ever made. Let me know if there are any questions the Mac community would like to have answered by ATI and I'll do my best to get them answered for you all. I do have two Mac articles in the works, I'm just at a loss for time right now but one of them will be published this month.
That's about all for now, for some reason it feels like a Friday but it's only a Wednesday. If I were still in school I would've hated that feeling and even now I still long for the weekends, it's just a different type of longing. Very difficult to explain, I'll try to do so later.
Take care...
It looks like there finally may be some resolution to the NVIDIA's Video Processor fiasco, I'm hoping for a public release of the driver by the end of this year but that's pure speculation on my part.
Next week I'll be making a trip up to ATI's Mac offices in Massachusetts, which will mark the first Mac related AT trip I will have ever made. Let me know if there are any questions the Mac community would like to have answered by ATI and I'll do my best to get them answered for you all. I do have two Mac articles in the works, I'm just at a loss for time right now but one of them will be published this month.
That's about all for now, for some reason it feels like a Friday but it's only a Wednesday. If I were still in school I would've hated that feeling and even now I still long for the weekends, it's just a different type of longing. Very difficult to explain, I'll try to do so later.
Take care...
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wbwither - Thursday, December 9, 2004 - link
#1 missed a couple of ATI questions:1) Will the Mac ever see an All-In-Wonder product?
2) Will the next-gen ATI chip that powers the Xbox2 be available for the Mac?
As for #1's #4: Why would ATI ever produce a Mac-specific card? They certainly wouldn't produce a Mac-specific GPU at any rate.
David Smith - Thursday, December 9, 2004 - link
I'd be interested to hear if Apple dropping the ADC port will cut costs for ATI any.Dee - Wednesday, December 8, 2004 - link
The_Necromancer strikes again! :-(Anand: The GPU/Memory bandwidth articles sound very interesting. It is one of the most anticipated articles. :)
The_Necromancer - Wednesday, December 8, 2004 - link
beautiful*The_Necromancer - Wednesday, December 8, 2004 - link
dang my beutiful art work has gotten mutilated.I am so sad :-(
The_Necromancer - Wednesday, December 8, 2004 - link
Ok heres the deal, I am a long time Readon user (powercolor all the way) but i neeed a new Gpu, now from what i have been reading Reodon slows a bit with Doom 3 ,however it does well inhalflife 2, will new video games run off of the doom 3 engine or will they run off of the half life engine,(i will be staying w/ the agp slot) also does anyone know anything about the advancement of the glaicer engine for hitman-blood money.
oh and on a side note, I am definetly not looking at any cutting edge. //////////
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Live - Wednesday, December 8, 2004 - link
The "GPU/memory bandwidth scaling on a card per card basis as well to find out where the limitations with the various GPUs lie" sounds migthy interesting.Michael - Wednesday, December 8, 2004 - link
Man, you covered all of the possible ATI/Mac questions there didn't you?r4v3 - Wednesday, December 8, 2004 - link
For the Mac questions, here's a couple:1. Will current-gen (ie. X800, i'm not even talking about X850) ATI GPUs ever be made for the Mac?
2. Do they have any insights into Apple's plans for PCIe?
3. Any details on the X1800 (or whatever it's gonna be called)?
4. Will ATI ever create Mac-specific cards?
5. What about FireGL cards?
6. Not really Mac-related, but important- any major changes in the Linux drivers? (ie up-to-date performance, actual installer)
I'm not sure if there are FireGL cards already (I don't think there are), so correct me if I'm wrong about anything.
Keep up the work on the HL2 article, I'm looking forward to it! Hopefully you'll test CPUs down to a P4 1.6Ghz (Willamette s468), since that's what I'm running. :(