Today two new differences between Radeon and Geforce GLSL support. 1 – float2 / vec2 vec2 is the GLSL type to hold a 2d vector. vec2 is supported by NVIDIA and ATI. float2 is a 2d vector but for Direct3D HLSL and for Cg. The GLSL compilation for Geforce is done via the NVIDIA Cg […]
Monthly Archives: May 2007
R600 is VTF-capable
“All of the fetch and filtering capabilities are available to each thread type, making the samplers completely agnostic about what’s using them.” This line from Beyond3D article on R600 means that vertex, geometry and pixel shaders can access to texture samplers. So Vertex Texture Fetching is now available with Radeon 2k series :thumbup: What’s more, […]
Dynamic branching and NVIDIA Forceware Drivers
Several weeks ago, I posted on Beyond3D a thread on my dynamic branching benchmark. I wondered why dynamic branching performances on Geforce 7 were worse than ones on Geforce 6 or 8. I believe I’ve got the answer: Forceware drivers. Here are some new results where ratio = Branching_ON / Branching_OFF : 7600GS – Fw […]
IrrKlang dans le Developpez.com Mag
Je viens de recevoir une news sur le magazine de developpez.com, le portail des developpeurs francophones. Je ne connaissais pas l’existance de ce mag qui en est poutrant déjà au numero 9. Il y a un petit article sur la 2D/3D: “Présentation de la bibliothèque IrrKlang”. Ca tombe bien c’est quelque chose que j’avais en […]
Quick Review – Asus Silient Square Pro
Voilà le nouveau ventirad pour le cpu que j’ai installé sur ma machine de test: Je dois dire que j’en suis assez satisfait. Facile à installer, ce ventirad d’Asus est quasiment inaudible. Et il rempli à merveille sa fonction de dissipation car les aillettes restent froides en permanence. Evidemment, je pense que c’est mon AMD […]