DarkStalker, neither I have an especial preference for a company. But if you mention Dx 10 and the GeForce 8 series, you know now who fools people a little big more. Yes, I got an 8800 GTX.

Fortunately, it went broken and I change it for a new one of G2 series, GTX 260. It was a pair of months ago, and after seen the GTX 260 / 280 firts ones in G2 and the rest, I decided to wait for a High Gaming GPU in next one generation.

Both companies went to PC Gaming Alliance: Less model per gen, cheaper prices per gen, and easier names.

Forget which gpu you have (I have 2 Nvidia GPUs): Which of this two companies has been more consecuent with what they told in PC Gaming Alliance ?

I am thinking to chage soon one of them, with Dx 11 ones. If I get this new gen or wait another 9 months for 2º Dx 11 GPUs, is only a matter of benchmarks.

And with Dx 10, there are games. Not too much, but NecroVision, Cryostasis, Stromrise, or World in Conflict Soviet Assault in this year. An Dragon Age Origins, as Wikipedia says.

Maybe because as in the new Call of Juarez Bound in Bounty, consoles and Dx 9 only support of this API in consoles, is now a big dead weight for PC Gaming.


Battlefield Bad Company 2 supports Dx 10.0, 10.1 and Dx 11 (Dx 9 for sure too). Am I a fool if I hope to see at least Dx 10 in next Battlefield 3 BUT with PhysX? I hope I would not be so wrong.

Well, we all have to wait and see. PC is having soon a new Operative System, New API, new GPUs, more games optimized for 64 Bits O.S. and an exciting 2 or 3 next years with a new perspective in Pc games.

So I am really excited!

Every 6-9 months. Its always been like that. I don't understand the Marketing cry you are making there. Marketing was always there, always. Every new card was introducing new tech. No difference with the upcoming series.

I only see good in it. New cards means reduced prices for older cards - which are animals anyway and can run most games on highest settings. Win Win for all.

Its not like old days when the best had to be purchased for 500$. you can buy the best for 250$ these days.

Guys DarkStalker totally right on this one its just marketing marketing marketing . Because of the war between nvidia and ATI graphic cards popping out of their factories like there's no tomorrow and every generation introduce new features like DX 10 and 11,tessellation ,shader model 4 and 5,HDR 128 bit........ etc but in the end how many developers work around those features and produce a good pc game ?.........whats actually happing is developer just port the console version to the pc so all those innervative features go waste with our money.First of all these two idiots need to understand the current situation on economy and pc as a gaming platform then establish a value and stable(not to introduce a new graphic card every 3 months) product line there after work with developers to bring pc exclusive titles.

But the number of polygons is currently not limited by the CPU (half of the cores idling around) or the PCI-E Interface (difference between 1.0 and 2.0 just measurable and 3.0 arond the corner), but by the processing power of the GPU.
And it doesn't make any differnce, wether to-be-calculated polygons are created by main system, normalmaps (definetly the superior way when it comes to faces - and widely supported) or tesselation. They need to be processed and thats the limiting factor.

DarkStalker,

The importance of this Tessellation technology is that the amount of polygons shown on that face (just the face) is like the mountain ranges in Crysis. Tell me you get that. (?)

More poly processing tech--the better. We need more detail and by god ATI/AMD is giving it to us! I for one, am stoked!

You are contradicting yourself. smaller die doesn't automatically mean it will be better than the competition.

So let's wait for the real-time benches b4 we make the choice of who won the upcoming round.

Co-members(and all others), don't get me wrong. I like when there is competition it works better for all of us, but i dont'like when some1 is selling us all nothing in an epic story so many times spoken. Just remember the directx 10 hype(and how many dx10 games do we have, or better dx10.1?). This is just marketing tricks, yet i heard nvidia is going for 22 nanometer process, it shows enough who wants to have kickass vga card, again long live nvidia :-)

This is not a presentation! Just showing off Tessellation. whats the big deal? why be such an nvidia fan boy? you know that if AMD wouldn't be around we all would have been screwed!


oh yes, AMD ****s so much and thats why their 4000 series rocks!

This AMD presentation of tessellation totaly ****s! A phew head circles with green wires on and off and we should all be so f...... happy and go emmidiatly buy ati vga card. This is a perfect example why nvidia will 4ever be vga KING.