PowerVR5 to be unveiled within the next month?

How are you going to see the look on anyone's face here?... think about it genius

 

Pray tell me then, who else is coming out with SM3.0 silicon this year, huh?

 

Look at the thread title. Its not hard to figure out who he's talking about...

 

Combine this:

with this:

See, the whole Series5 announcement itself is nothing but rumour as of now and here he comes, asking if anybody knows about SM3.0 support. Nobody even mentioned that before him, yet we're supposed to treat it as a fact? Puh-leeze...

 

Nobody in this thread perhaps. But people have been saying Series 5 is 3.0 compliant for a while. I've personally had that info for quite some time, so that part is not rumour as far as I'm concerned. I agree its a bit pemature for him to assume that Series 5 will be released this year of course. As this is only a rumour ATM, all be it a strong one.

I just thought you genuinly didn't know who he was talking about

 

Are you suggesting that ATi's offering will also have virtual texturing ?

 

Xbox2 suport, huh? Now, that's really interesting considering that a) Xbox 2 graphics hardware is being lisences FROM ATi and, b) XBox 2 will be SM4.0. Yup, the Xbox 2 will make SM 3.0 lots of polular and ATi won't have hardware capable of it....

 

Xbox 2 shaders will be at least DX9-level. therefore SM 2.0 + SM 3.0,
if not SM 4.0/ DX10 / DirectX Next.

 

Where did I mention ATI and/or virtual texturing? And what's so special about virtual texturing anyway..... 8)

 

Radar1200gs have to throw mud at ATI again in a topic not related to ATI in anyway? Why am i not surprised

As much as i'd like to see a PowerVR5 going final and retail to consumers i'm wondering how long has the rumour been going that it's been in dev? 2 years seems to be a standard dev time now unless you got loads of resources to spare :/
And if the card is a TBDR as some people hope (which i don't really understand the benefit of), doesn't that mean that the card should be able to match the NV40 / R420 with say 80% of their specs considering if they got the tech that is.

 

You didn't mention ATi and virtual texturing. I was just looking for an interesting way in which Nvidia could be the odd man out.

Reading between your lines is an inexact science(or perhaps its an art) but it seemed a reasonable guess.

 

I don't like surprises *snicker*

Last time I asked JohnH here how long it's been under development, it seems to be as long as the competition too more or less. I think (not being sure) that it doesn't have to do anything with what ST licensed in the past.

pmac,

What do you like about Monica Bellucci most?

 

| EDIT : woah, I thought hit "preview" and then abort, not "submit" and click away... |

 

Ailuros, Monica Belluci has the most gorgeous curved surfaces of any women alive. Thinking about her gets me processing in a most primitive way.

I suppose Nvidia simply can't handle Monica's curves and that's why they are the odd man out. I always had my suspicions about them.

 

I heard for the Power VR5 series the tech demo is going to be a fat hairy guy with a beer gut and flies flying around him because the card is so awesome that they don't need any sexy chick to entice customer. But hey its just rumour

 

pmac, have you seen Matrix Reloaded? If yes, did you notice anything about that outfit she was wearing ie opaqness? 8)

 

Kristof gained weight? ......

*/runs for his life*

 

No, but I will check her, er, it out now.

 

Err no... hovering around 59 Kg these days...

K-