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ATI's Radeon 10,000 Capable of 128-bit Color
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Posted by: TotalRecall
The Inquirer is reporting that the ATI Radeon 10000 will house the ability to display in 128-bit color:
According to our sources, the 128-bit implementation will make multitexturing applications look better and you will be able to have 32-bits per colour. This is amazing since it enables you to have 16.7 milion combnations per colour. In current 32-bit color you just have 8 pixels per colour, giving just 256 variations of colors.
128-bit precision should be part of the DX 9 specification and if you want your hardware to be DX 9 compatible you need to have this precision inside. This leads us to the conclusion that Nvidia NV30 will also have support for 128-bit floating point precision.
Read more here.
Sources: NeoWin & FiringSquad
Posted by: Xtren
That sounds awesome, I'm getting my ATI Radeon 8500 next week so that's good to hear.
Posted by: Null Actor
The register is on crack. The spec calls for 64bit internal color calculations. And this will make little difference other than the speed hit.
The only place it would ever be noticeable is when a game has heavily layered transparancies. And even then, you will most likely only ever be able to see the difference in screenshots, since the miscalculations at 32bit are minute, and rarely noticeable unless you know exactly what to look for.
Posted by: Xtren
You probably won't notice the difference right now but soon game requirements will probably rise and eventually it might get to the point where most games will require 64 bit color. Then the 128 bit color may come in handy.
Posted by: Null Actor
You can't *see* 64 bits worth of color. It's only useful for internal calculations, as it will get rid of color banding. That's it.
Posted by: SKYHN
The Inquirer, eh?
The same people that said the Detonator 5 drivers were coming out 2 weeks ago.
The same people that claimed the Matrox Parhelia outperformed the GF4 Ti 4600 by 50%.
The same people who said AMD would drop the prices of their CPU's by 88%.
Lets all find a new source of information 
Posted by: iTaL
thats alot of damm color lol
Posted by: Xtren
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Originally posted by SKYHN
The Inquirer, eh?
The same people that said the Detonator 5 drivers were coming out 2 weeks ago.
The same people that claimed the Matrox Parhelia outperformed the GF4 Ti 4600 by 50%.
The same people who said AMD would drop the prices of their CPU's by 88%.
Lets all find a new source of information
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This time it seems like that the possibility is more likely though. I mean who would have doubted that the GF4 Ti 4600 would outperform the Matrox Parhelia?
Posted by: SKYHN
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Originally posted by Xtren
This time it seems like that the possibility is more likely though. I mean who would have doubted that the GF4 Ti 4600 would outperform the Matrox Parhelia?
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The Inquirer did
They post so much BS now that you cant believe anything posted by them until you actually see it for yourself.
Theres either one of 2 things here:
They made it up(seems to be the only site reporting it)
OR
ATI is doing more hype for their PenAndPaper R300.
Posted by: Xtren
Well you did make a few good points, we'll just have to wait and find out.
Posted by: taco_fox
How can you not trust the Inquirer with such great stories as this one?
Posted by: SKYHN
I like my Mobo with a little tabasco and some rambus shavings
Posted by: Xtren
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Originally posted by the_radarblip
How can you not trust the Inquirer with such great stories as this one?
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Well that is a pretty stupid story there, I think they overdid it a bit.
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