ATI or NVidia - best for Java3d?

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davidford@cotsec.com - 14 Sep 2003 12:01 GMT

I'm contemplating purchasing a new graphics
card, and would like to purchase one that
performs well with Java3D.

Which begs two questions:

1. Which moderately high end card is
better: ATI, or Nvidia? Given the current
controversy relating to Half Life 2 and these two
cards, I'm frankly a tad unsure!

2. Is there a well-known benchmark written in Java3d
to make the card choice a little easier?

Many thanks in advance!

David

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Jens - 15 Sep 2003 14:07 GMT

Hi,

i dont think your choice for a card is java 3d relevant.
java 3d uses OpennGL or Directx (win only). It not does
not use the newest high performane features like vertex-shaders
or pixel-shaders. In my opinion you should choose the
card you like or you need, or the cheapest ;)

If there is some benchmark ? i think there isn't some avaible,
but there a lots of benachmarks in ceneral avaible. this should
give you enough information to choose a gfx-card.

- Jens

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> David

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O.D.C - 17 Sep 2003 22:49 GMT

Hmmm....
Difficult to say! Normally I buy Nvidia Cards, but at the moment I
think ATI is better and cheaper. But as said before, you don't need a
high end card like (ATI 9800 Pro or NVIDIA Geforce FX 5900 pro) for
developing JAVA 3D. So check out some hardware tests on the net and
find the right card for you!

greez O.D.C

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buerfent - 11 Nov 2003 12:47 GMT

hello -

both cards have very good opengl drivers,

my OpenGl programs work with both of them really good (linux or win).

(any other cards - voodoo or matrox etc.. are marginal and
irrelevant now for opengl ... or only for fans or tweak-freaks)

even the "old" ati rage128 cards have drivers with opengl support
( missing card features are emulated with software)

And for me its the most important thing: having the functions :)

my2cents,

cedric

replace nospam -> cedric78

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