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Embattle
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Sounds good but for me it needs to be properly tested before I believe that ATI or Nvidia really have any competition 
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Originally posted by smurkin
Volari Duo V8 Ultra - 5600+ - 3D MARK 2003...
What do you recon fellers...is this a good score (compared to say a 9800 pro) ? I am finding it very difficult to find any meaningfull info (that isnt in French)....it would be nice to think there is a third way
some background stuff here
post stuff in french and ill translate (or use babelfish ;p)
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Sounds interesting That said, one of the problems is a lack of optimised codepaths in games and such. For example, Half-Life 2, Doom³ and other games optimise their codepaths for either nVidia or ATi cards, to ensure they perform the best they can. When you try and run a card on an unoptimised codepath, or on the 'wrong' codepath, as perhaps illustrated with nVidia and Half-Life 2 recently, the results are disappointing. Sadly this makes it hard for alternative cards to really establish themselves, despite performing well in benchmarks and such.
Also of interest may be S3's DeltaChrome chipset, which, on paper at least, seems interesting
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That said, one of the problems is a lack of optimised codepaths in games and such. For example, Half-Life 2, Doom³ and other games optimise their codepaths for either nVidia or ATi cards, to ensure they perform the best they can. When you try and run a card on an unoptimised codepath, or on the 'wrong' codepath, as perhaps illustrated with nVidia and Half-Life 2 recently, the results are disappointing. Sadly this makes it hard for alternative cards to really establish themselves, despite performing well in benchmarks and such.Also of interest may be S3's DeltaChrome chipset, which, on paper at least, seems interesting
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Originally posted by Jonty
Also of interest may be S3's DeltaChrome chipset, which, on paper at least, seems interesting
About the only place S3 chips are interesting, or indeed any good, apart from bins though