So it's gonna be a little while before I can get some comparison benchmarks up of my own. GA-Source attended a press conference early this morning held by 3dfx and have posted their report . You can also check out these images from Well-rounded showing off the image quality of the Voodoo5 running Quake3. Blues News is reporting that Unreal Tournament has gone gold, and should be appearing on store shelves on Friday already. Developers have a very difficult decision to make right now, because they have to worry about the size of the market for any game that they have to create.
Developers now have to scale their games for a very wide variation of geometric complexity.
This is a substantial technology hurdle to overcome in order to span the gaming sector. Publishers want their developers to maximize the total market, not simply hit a few hard core people on the high end. By giving the developers insane fill rates, it s easier for them to make their games run faster and look better. As a result, the out of box experience for people that buy Voodoo5 is absolutely tremendous. We'd really like transform engines to push complex scenes and do skeletal blending, and we still have to scale our games for a variety of fill rates.