id Softwares John Carmack har tilføjet et par interessante observationer i seneste indlæg i sin .plan-fil. Her advarer han folk om at købe NVIDIAs GeForce 4 MX (ikkeTi-modelerne) med henblik på Doom 3. Carmark pointerer at GeForce 4 MX (NV17 chippen) slet ikke har de samme muskler som GeForce 4 Ti – og GeForce 3 for den sags skyld. Så er man da advaret.


On the topic of current Nvidia cards:



Do not buy a GeForce4-MX for Doom.



Nvidia has really made a mess of the naming conventions here. I always thought it was bad enough that GF2 was just a speed bumped GF1, while GF3 had significant architectural improvements over GF2. I expected GF4 to be the speed bumped GF3, but calling the NV17 GF4-MX really sucks.



GF4-MX will still run Doom properly, but it will be using the NV10 codepath with only two texture units and no vertex shaders. A GF3 or 8500 will be much better performers. The GF4-MX may still be the card of choice for many people depending on pricing, especially considering that many games won’t use four textures and vertex programs, but damn, I wish they had named it something else.



As usual, there will be better cards available from both Nvidia and ATI by the time we ship the game.





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11 KOMMENTARER

  1. ah.. nej, lille fejl der af phon:

    GF4-MX will still run Doom properly, but it will be using the NV10 codepath with only two texture units and no vertex shaders. A GF3 or 8500 will be much better performers.

    Altså noget teknisk mumbo-jumbo… facit = GF3 holder stadigvæk, bare ikke GF4 MX.

  2. Carmark pointerer at GeForce 4 MX (NV17 chippen) slet ikke har de samme muskler som GeForce 4 Ti – og GeForce 3 for den sags skyld. Så er man da advaret.

    Da jeg læste det, opfattede jeg det som om at GF4 mx var for langsomt til doom3, og at GF3 var endnu langsommere.
    Men som carmack skriver, (se nedenstående quote i #6), så er det pga noget teknisk fis, som GF4 mx mangler, men som GF3 har – dvs. at GF3 faktisk er bedre end GF4 mx, når man snakker doom3.

  3. hmm 8(
    well, hvis der skulle være nogle der læser DR der ligesom mig forstod det forkert, så er det i hvert fald opklaret.. ville heller ikke have været rart at skulle smide sit GF3 ud allerede når doom3 kom..