AMD Cayman info (or rumor)

[bamtan2]

I don't remember demo exactly, but I remember their reasoning... it's part of the reason why they stopped innovating IMO. It was the first time I laughed at 3DFX sadly not the last

you don't remember anything. I hope nobody listened to you and got any wrong ideas.

if you want to remember something, remember this: 3dfx went bankrupt because it failed to deliver competitive products for multiple product cycles in a row. failure to execute. period.

3dfx was the first company to say you should be playing at 60fps, not 30fps.

[safan80]

you don't remember anything. I hope nobody listened to you and got any wrong ideas.

if you want to remember something, remember this: 3dfx went bankrupt because it failed to deliver competitive products for multiple product cycles in a row. failure to execute. period.

3dfx was the first company to say you should be playing at 60fps, not 30fps.

They executed just their strategy just fine. It was the wrong way for them to go, what they did was cling their proprietary glide and did not want to fully support standards like opengl. Yes they failed to compete with Nvidia, who supported opengl. Nvidia is doing this with Cuda and physX. On the hardware side they clung old tech and just started adding more chips to it. It's not a failure to execute it was a failure to innovate and meet customer's demands.

As for the whole 30/60 fps thing ... The details don't matter much anymore they're dead.

[Vardant]

Nvidia is doing this with Cuda and physX. On the hardware side they clung old tech and just started adding more chips to it. It's not a failure to execute it was a failure to innovate and meet customer's demands.

Except NV is one of the founders of Khronos group, that is behind OpenCL and they were also the first to start supporting OpenCL physics Bullet engine.

Careful, so you don't get dizzy from all the spinning...