RyanSmithAT: Ahh, okay, you're talking about Windows 11.andreif7: The microarchitecture does very little towards improving aspects that affect gaming.andreif7: I already wrote that in the piece.IanCutress: I had one but never had time to review it.IanCutress: There are no video outputs, traces, or SoC power chokes.IanCutress: There was a stat from someone somewhere that said something like 80% of top CEOs are two stand….IanCutress: There's also a narrative that heightism and sexism are intertwined, and some of the time what….So indeed only the pixel shader effects in the OGL2/XGL2 plugins were done with ATI hardware (using no special ATI extensions, though, only the standard ARB ones which are available on nVidia's DX9 cards as well).Īnyway, I am pretty sure that you also can find psx games which will run faster on nVidia cards (for example if many framebuffer reads are needed - even old nVidia cards are still two times faster with such reads than the newest ATI ones), so the spotlight on the two games mentioned in the article is just this: a spotlight. Yes, spring 2003 I got a R9700Pro (since the first GFFX cards didn't look to promising - hot and noisy - by then), but all major coding (and optimization) work was already finished at this point. Starting 1999 on my good ole TNT1 card, later on GF1/GF3/GF4 ones. PeteBernert - Friday, Malink I want to add a small comment (since my plugins seems to be mentioned in the article )) about the 'developed on/for ATI cards' confusions: all of my psx gpu plugins (Win D3D/OGL1/OGL2 Linux Mesa/XGL2) were in fact developed on nVidia cards.All we can do right now is to give a sidelong glance at the motherboard and wonder, but we don't have any conclusive evidence of what is going on here yet. The added speed and cache of the 3.4GHz EE not adding any benefit at all indicates that there is a bottleneck somewhere else in the system. With all the Intel processors essentially pushing 66 frames per second (almost 200fps in the emulator), this seems like it could be a platform limitation. Here, we see both the AMD Athlon 64 processors leading the Intel bunch. Of course, that doesn't mean as much considering the fact that the performance delta from top to bottom is only 3 frames per second. In this benchmark, GPU seems to have less impact than CPU (as seen in the next graph), but the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra has finally crept out from under the pile. The FRAPS reported frame rate is about 33% of the emulator reported framerate. This is a full 3D landscape environment with some framebuffer effects (in this case, rain). Final Fantasy IX Performance - The World Map

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