On 3/21/06, James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Timothy Miller wrote: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/174615/ > << > OGC has to compete against the likes of Intel and Via on the low end, > and can't hope to compete against NVIDIA and ATI on the high end. > >> > Well, DUH! > > I didn't realize that there were any Intel or VIA based graphics boards. > If there were, we wouldn't need to compete against them since they > provide documentation of their products.
Marketing OGC would be challenging in the face of competing products from Intel and VIA. Of course, there will be lots of people buying OGC for AMD-based systems without built-in video. Hopefully, our greater degree of disclosure will result in much superior drivers, which would certainly be a competitive advantage. > > Perhaps an Intel based board would be a good idea since a lot of PCs > don't have a graphics processor built in. It looks like it would be > possible to make a graphics board using an 82945G north bridge chip. > You would need a bus interface chip, a FPGA and an EEPROM. Is there a > market for such a low end open graphics board? Zack Rusin seems to like > the Intel chip. I wonder how well the new "GMA950" will work and if > Intel will make a full 3D driver for it. Howard looked into using a north bridge chip like this. IIRC, we figured out that it's designed to be a central resource and cannot be made to act as a peripheral device. Perhaps that has changed. > But, yes, IIUC we do expect to compete against NVidia and ATI. I don't > know how high end we intend our first product to be, but I presume that > it will be competitive unless NVidia or ATI respond by releasing all of > their documentation to the public. :-) For many people, documentation won't be enough. They want performance. For some things, we'll be plenty fast. Use MIP maps, and we'll be using all of our memory bandwidth, which is quite a lot, and we'll be competitive with other vendors. Do something that requires a lot of geometry work, and we won't be. Hence not targeting games. OGA should be very fast for desktops. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
