REX Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 John Carmack has been an innovator in the gaming industry. Right from his first real 3D game Quake, he had been pushing the graphics hardware industry to the limits. Now with his latest game Rage hot on the anvil, he is still doing the same. PC Gamer recently interviewed the game genius and asked him what his personal favorite graphics card would be. Carmack expressed a personal inclination towards NVIDIA's products and one of the reasons for this was that over the period of years, his system has almost consistently had NVIDIA graphics cards. Another contributing factor was that he and his team have more personal ties with NVIDIA and that they have a great developer support program where developers such as he can get answers for their most obscure questions directly from the GPU creators, and this has not been the case with competing GPU manufacturers.Nevertheless, Carmack believes that today, you can almost never make a bad decision with graphics cards as both NVIDIA and AMD make graphics cards powerful enough to handle any contemporary game. He pointed out that graphics integrated into the processor may play a big part in the future of gaming industry. But for that to happen, manufacturers such as Intel have to allow low-level access to harness the immense power of the processor, and when that happens, it will be a time to worry for the big guns of graphics hardware industry such as NVIDIA, because that would effectively spell their downfall. As of now, that doesn't seem to be going to happen any time soon. So, while Rage can run on Intel's integrated graphics, you may not want to run it that way.In conclusion, Carmack said "To some degree, it seems almost inevitable where the world of multi-hundred-dollar add-in cards are doing something that s being done pretty well by an on-die chip. Not right now, maybe not next year, but it s hard to imagine a world five years from now where you don t have competent graphics on every CPU die."Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REX Posted May 15, 2011 Author Share Posted May 15, 2011 I prefer Nvidia!!! :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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