DOOM 3 & DX9 [Sep 17, 2003, 7:08 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
With all the discussion lately about how Half-Life 2 will run on ATI hardware
compared with NVIDIA accelerators, BonusWeb.cz
shot off an email to id Software's John Carmack to ask how DOOM 3 and other
games are likely to be impacted by the difference between the two graphics
platforms running DirectX 9. Here's how he responded:
Unfortunately, it will probably be representative of most DX9 games. Doom has a custom back end that uses the lower precisions on the GF-FX, but when you run it with standard fragment programs just like ATI, it is a lot slower. The precision doesn't really matter to Doom, but that won't be a reasonable option in future games designed around DX9 level hardware as a minimum spec.
Care to verify your source? Of that being the Nv3x designed by former 3dfx engineers and that of the Nv4x being designed by the people behind Geforce4?
IIRC 3dfx was already bought over way before the Geforce4 was released right?
Then what are those 3dfx engineers doing over at Nvidia all these while before the FX series?
Twiddling their thumbs?
They were working on the FX series the whole time. I remember the article that he's talking about.
Nvidia supposedly is alternating two teams (one composed of the former 3dfx engineers, and the other with the original nvidia design team) between chipsets. So when one chipset is being released, the other team is already elbow deep in working on the next chipset. So the plan was that after the Geforce4 design was complete, that team would be working on the sequel to the GeforceFX. And the team that worked on the FX chipset started working on it after moving from 3dfx to Nvidia. I thought that was interesting since some physical design aspects such as size, heat, and power were similar with the Voodoo5(?) and the GeforceFX.
Unfortunately, I don't remember the source of this information (so take my memory of the article with a grain of salt) but the article in question was written when the FX chipset was released.
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