ATI cards does not require +100W per card. Less than half of nVidia
actually, with almost the same speed. The difference in testing was
less than 5% between their best cards.
Also the nVidia cards are hotter, making them worse putting
in small MicroATX cases without serious cooling

This is because NVidia has put alot more inside their chips which
makes the die larger. They also go at a much higher frequency,
which also makes them hotter.

This like comparing Intel Pentium 4 with PowerPC
Intel Pentium 4 are bigger, faster, hotter and comsumes ####loads
of power. PowerPC's are smaller, a bit slower, cooler and consumes
less than half the power.
Look at Intel, they have hit the roof with Pentium 4. It isn't that easy
making +4GHz CPU's ehh?

My view on this is ATI's cards are smarter designs and a way better
choice for Amiga.
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/Harry

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@Samwel
Refer to http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040504/ati-x800-09.html

They are both power hungry (referring to ATI-R X800 and NV 6800).

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This like comparing Intel Pentium 4 with PowerPC Intel Pentium 4 are bigger, faster, hotter and comsumes ####loads of power. PowerPC's are smaller, a bit slower, cooler and consumes less than half the power. Look at Intel, they have hit the roof with Pentium 4. It isn't that easy making +4GHz CPU's ehh?

Factor in PowerPC 970FX@ 2.5Ghz. The problem with PowerPC 7447A is it's scaling ability to 2.5Ghz. Throwning 970FX's 100watts into a PowerPC 7447A = dead PowerPC 7447A.

Reference.
http://www-03.ibm.com/technology/power/newsletter/august2004/article7.html

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Refer to http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20457
ATI does the SLI** trick without the bridge.

**ATI's technobabble for SLI is "AMR" or "ATI Multi Rendering".

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Refer to http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20457

It's funny that everybody makes it sound like NVidia invented SLI when the technology was originally available with Voodoo 2 graphics cards, and works internally on Voodoo 5's.

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Work has already started on Nova, and it will be very similar to DX9 with shader-centric design and high-level shading language.

Isn't low level language enough ?

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Isn't low level language enough ?

That's a good question, but the answer is "no". Actually writing complex vertex shaders in assembler is a lot of work. And like assembler in general, it has two major drawbacks - lack of readability and hardware specific.

The only advantage of a low-level shader language is that it is easier to estimate the size of the shader; this is very important especially for pixel shaders that are generally very limited in size.

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**ATI's technobabble for SLI is "AMR" or "ATI Multi Rendering".

Vapor.......

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ATI is working hard to catch up with Nvidia in the SLI game, and it will try to make its chipset and drivers ready for launch as soon as possible. This is expected sometime in Q2 2005.

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Sure, I'd like to write a 3D driver for that, but so far they didn't want to release any information. So if you can change that...

Is it done yet ??

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@Rogue

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It's funny that everybody makes it sound like NVidia invented SLI when the technology was originally available with Voodoo 2 graphics cards, and works internally on Voodoo 5's.

To be fair to nVidia, their SLI implementation is about as far removed from the 3Dfx technique as it is possible to get while keeping the same goal in mind.

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@Rogue

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That's a good question, but the answer is "no"...

It just means that "when it's done" will take more time than I first hoped, and I'm pretty sure that demomakers would have loved to play with an assembly-like language .

But if it can bring more games, that's ok, and that may be what Amiga need.