Rumours has it that ATI's new card will definitedly not top Nvidia's current high-end cards. The 3800 cards will probably be selling at a lower price to compete with Nvidia.

However, percentage doesn't mean a thing. We want absolute numbers. e.g. ATI 30fps, Nvidia 33fps - so nvidia wins by 10%.....

Another thing about DX10.1. Have you guys heard? Apparently, for DX10.1, the AA will be running at 4x. You can't turn it on or off manually. Dunno. That's what I read. Would really kill the fps in lower end systems......

The last I heard, you can't. It is NOT an option. However, I'm sure there will be a way around this....

Dunno. Hope not. Here's an excerpt :

"What are the changes? DX 10.1's goals are to offer the "complete" DX 10, giving developers better control over image quality and making mandatory some of the things that are optional in DX 10. For example, 32-bit floating point filtering is optional in DX10 (16-bit FP filtering is mandatory), but will be mandatory in DX 10.1. Also, in DX 10, the number of multisample anti-aliasing samples is optional-DX 10.1 will make 4x AA mandatory, and require two specific sample patterns. Graphics cards can offer more sample patterns, and developers can query them in their shaders. Graphics cards that are DX 10.1 compliant will have to offer programmable shader output sample masks and multisample AA depth readback. Game developers will be able to index into cube maps and perform bitwise copies from uncompressed textures to block-compressed texture formats. "

I see. Yeah, I thought is was a bit funny to have the AA turn on all the time.

Hehe, now that I read that excerpt again, it makes more sense....

This post has been edited by kmarc: Nov 3 2007, 04:49 PM