ATI accuses Nvidia of cheating

23 Apr, 2004 at 7:30pm ET Article published in Tech

[i]The Inquirer[/i] reports that ATI is making hay while the sun shines after an article at Driverheaven more or less accused Nvidia of cheating.

ATI says that CryTek’s representative told it that what Nvidia showed us in Geneva was a 2.0/3.0 path versus 1.1 path.

The key message is that Shader model 3.0 and 2.0 look exactly the same, the ATI representative added.

In a developers’ mail that we also received, it added that there is a possibility that the 3.0 path might be slightly faster in same cases on some hardware – an obvious reference to Nvidia.

ATI also claims that its hardware will run faster then Nvidia’s anyway and he added: “It’s pretty much impossible to make a sm3.0 game look noticeably different to a sm2.0 game, which is why Nvidia was comparing the 2.0/3.0 path with a 1.1 path.”

Source: TheInquirer

Comments

24 Apr 2004 ~ 2:44pm ginipig uh?
24 Apr 2004 ~ 3:02pm pseudonym lol, exactly.
24 Apr 2004 ~ 8:38pm MJO Oh no here we go again.

Ati: Cheater
nVidia: No you are a cheater
Ati: No no you are a cheater
nVidia: No no no y......... and so it continues.
24 Apr 2004 ~ 8:54pm mmonnin The NV40 does look to be farther off than ATIs tho. ATI's is different but not in the same way NVs is. The NV40 is misdrawing it in someplaces where ATIs has some shading and just a few pixels off, where NVs has like huge chunks the wrong color.