Who is ahead in the development process?
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Phew, tough question.Zark said:
I honestly don't know but the answer lies in which of the two will be the first to auto-detect and automagically render more hair on Eric Demers head when pictures of him appear on the Internet. You know how expensive it is to render a lot of realistic hair on 3D hardware. So, that's my guess.
Just to be sure, however... you weren't talking about things like human resource development, right?
Well.. I can't imagine the whole R&D department working on a single problem. ATi has split development tracks so R580 was offcourse unaffected. but the design of next and next generation chips (R600, R6X0, R700) was IMO unaffected by the production problems, it may have stalled one or two weeks but once chi design is complete it's up to other people to work it out.
If you design chips over such a long period (say, R600's development started in 2002 (as R400)) what would the effect of some ground problems in r520 be on R600? hardly any influence right?
NV40 was a big bump.. but mostly because it's a switched development track.. and even then nV didn't have to much trouble to market that product in time..
If you design chips over such a long period (say, R600's development started in 2002 (as R400)) what would the effect of some ground problems in r520 be on R600? hardly any influence right?
NV40 was a big bump.. but mostly because it's a switched development track.. and even then nV didn't have to much trouble to market that product in time..
As far as products availible today.......it's ATi. My reason for saying this is just look at the top end products from both companies. The 7800 series is nothing more than an extention of the same architecture first seen on the 6xxx series....and can possibly be traced back to the original ATi 9700.... pretty much brute force and very conventional. Now look at all of the "new" architecture in the X1xxxx series, it's anything but conventional...and Xenos goes even farther to the non conventional side.....
Granted this is a conclusion based on glittering generalities.......and has only basis in what we can see right now. No telling what either company has up it's sleeve.
Granted this is a conclusion based on glittering generalities.......and has only basis in what we can see right now. No telling what either company has up it's sleeve.
NocturnDragon
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_xxx_ said:I'm talking about research, design, experimenting...all the stuff ATI couldn't do that extensively last year. But it's as always just an uneducated guess
I guess also being in bed with microsoft will give it's fruits!
