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The Inquirer's mole has been a busy bee and has dug up some new rumours!

Some of Nvidia guys that know how things work have told our friends that NV36, Geforce FX 5900 Ultra already has support for pixel shader 3.0 but there is no any driver publicly available that will support it. µ The same source implied that when Nvidia tested pixel shader 3.0 internally, there was a hardware problem.



We reckon that Nvidia is practising for NV40 and who knows, if it fixes things NV38 could end up with pixel shader 3.0 support, highly unlikely but still possible.

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shaderboy Unregistered

#46823 Posted on: 09/01/2003 10:52 AM Hell they cant even do PS2.0 properly let alone 3.0 !!

tutu Unregistered

#46826 Posted on: 09/01/2003 12:57 PM That is NV35 not NV36!!!

El_Coyote Senior Member Posts: 555 Joined: 2002-12-18

#46828 Posted on: 09/01/2003 01:17 PM besides the point, the fx wont have enough muscle to do ps3.0 properly, look at the problems the lineup has with ps2.0 alone...

digitalwonderer Unregistered

#46829 Posted on: 09/01/2003 03:23 PM Sure it can DO it, the bloody 5200 can DO PS2.0...it just does it at a couple of frames a second. The hardware just isn't there for good PS 2.0 performance, the idea that PS 3.0 will work well on it is beyond laughable! But it is interesting to see nVidia floating this story....I guess their new strategy will be to push the importance of PS 3.0 which the NV40 will support and pretend that PS 2.0 is of little importance and just a graphics world fad that you'll never even need. Unless you wanna play Half-life 2 with the eye-candy, or something crazy like that.... :lol:

Phantom69 Unregistered

#46830 Posted on: 09/01/2003 03:29 PM Pfftt... That's nothing, the Radeon 7000 supports PS6.5, but um, er, due to a 'hardware problem' it wont work. But honest, it would otherwise work... P69

ccso Junior Member Posts: 10 Joined: 2002-01-10

#46831 Posted on: 09/01/2003 06:24 PM ...

JemyM Senior Member Posts: 130 Joined: 2003-02-13

#46837 Posted on: 09/02/2003 07:03 AM Uhm. Who beyond Lara fans cares... Really?

shaderboy Unregistered

#46838 Posted on: 09/02/2003 09:30 AM HL fans ? fans of any up coming game ?

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