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Originally Posted by 1080jibber
whats the difference between DX10 and DX9, are there screenshots to show the difference between DX10 cards.
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Dx 10 cards are due around the end of this year, r600 for ati and the g80 for nvidia.
One of the benefits of dx10 is reduced overhead
Basically so tihngs get done faster, theres an article on it here with slides from an ati presentation.
http://www.ukgamer.net/index.php4?actio ... 322&page=1
When the cards come available it seems ati will have the uppperhand, their card is going to have unified shaders which means that if the card has 64 pipelines they can be swapped around dynamicaly for geometry, pixel shading and texturing. So for example if a scene in a game uses a lot of texture horsepower and not much of the other 2 then more of the pipelines can basically become texturing pipelines to improve performance.
Cards today are limited to predefined pipeline numbers and they can't be dynamically altered. Ati already has done the r500 which is in the xbox 360 based on the unified pipeline design so when the r600 comes they'll already be a step ahead of nvidia.