Gamers Depot have thrown up a new article called Desktop GPU DX9 Showdown! which looks at the Pixel Shader 2.0 DX9 functionality within a gaming environment! what did we tell you? about Nvidia Cards, ATI bitchslaps Nvidia and they didn't even see it coming or did they? Hehe Half-Life 2 DirectX 9 Performance! Here's a snip.
Who are we to argue with NVIDIA?s wishes? They?ve been insisting that synthetic benchmarks such as 3DMark 2003 don?t reflect actual game play - yesterday we took them up on that in the mobile space, and today we look at the desktop cards. Using a Beta build of Halo (version 1.5) and the newly released Tomb Raider Patch, we?ve been able to provide an early peak at Pixel Shader 2.0 performance ? even 1.1 and 1.4 performance as well. Who are we to argue with NVIDIA?s wishes? They?ve been insisting that synthetic benchmarks such as 3DMark 2003 don?t reflect actual game play - yesterday we took them up on that in the mobile space, and today we look at the desktop cards. Using a Beta build of Halo (version 1.5) and the newly released Tomb Raider Patch, we?ve been able to provide an early peak at Pixel Shader 2.0 performance ? even 1.1 and 1.4 performance as well.
NVIDIA vs. ATI: Desktop GPU DX9 Showdown
Who are we to argue with NVIDIA?s wishes? They?ve been insisting that synthetic benchmarks such as 3DMark 2003 don?t reflect actual game play - yesterday we took them up on that in the mobile space, and today we look at the desktop cards. Using a Beta build of Halo (version 1.5) and the newly released Tomb Raider Patch, we?ve been able to provide an early peak at Pixel Shader 2.0 performance ? even 1.1 and 1.4 performance as well. Who are we to argue with NVIDIA?s wishes? They?ve been insisting that synthetic benchmarks such as 3DMark 2003 don?t reflect actual game play - yesterday we took them up on that in the mobile space, and today we look at the desktop cards. Using a Beta build of Halo (version 1.5) and the newly released Tomb Raider Patch, we?ve been able to provide an early peak at Pixel Shader 2.0 performance ? even 1.1 and 1.4 performance as well.
NVIDIA vs. ATI: Desktop GPU DX9 Showdown
