15 Dec
2005
15 Dec
'05
12:30 p.m.
Yea, it won't give you insane framerates with
OpenGL. But if you are> looking for a 3D capable card, with awesome drivers, there is
no> substitute.
The really bad thing is, that no cards except for modern
NVIDIA's andATI's support GLSL and programmable shading in general. AFAIK,
ATIdrivers works much worse than NVIDIA ones. So if you want to processvideo/3d using
modern technologies you have no choice - NVIDIA only.
And yes, it has direct implications on media art. Take a look at newversion of Jitter
(Max/MSP addon) or Quartz Composer on MacOS X. Theyall use GPU to process video.
Moreover, I am very sceptical on possibility to create such a GPU in aopen source way.If
only nvidia/ati opened their driver sources...
--Dmitry