ATI accuses Nvidia of cheating

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited April 2004 in Science & Tech
The Inquirer 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

  • ginipigginipig OH, NOES
    edited April 2004
    uh?
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    :wtf: lol, exactly.
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited April 2004
    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.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited April 2004
    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.
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