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Vertex shading

Witch_Hunter_84Witch_Hunter_84 Registered User regular
edited May 2008 in Games and Technology
hey pretty quick/simple question here. Does anyone know if the ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO has vertex shading? Im getting a new imac and i'd rather get the $1500 2.66 ghz one rather than spring for the $2200 dollar 3.06 ghz one, simply because the more expensive one comes with the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS.

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  • DaedalusDaedalus Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Every graphics card made after the Radeon 9700, six years ago, has vertex shaders. Are you thinking of geometry shaders?

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  • RookRook Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I'm pretty sure Vertex Shaders were actually in the Radeon 8000 and GeForce 3 cards.

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  • DaedalusDaedalus Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Rook wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure Vertex Shaders were actually in the Radeon 8000 and GeForce 3 cards.

    I thought those were pixel-shader only? That was the difference between DirectX 8 and DirectX 9, unless I'm remembering things wrong.

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  • RookRook Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Daedalus wrote: »
    Rook wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure Vertex Shaders were actually in the Radeon 8000 and GeForce 3 cards.

    I thought those were pixel-shader only? That was the difference between DirectX 8 and DirectX 9, unless I'm remembering things wrong.


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shader
    Dx8 introduced both vertex and pixel shaders.

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