Coding Horror‘s Jeff Atwood has previously talked at length on this site about the new anti-aliasing kid on the block, Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing, a post-process shader developed by NVIDIA that trumps traditional forms of AA, but at a fraction of the required GPU power. What if I were to tell you there’s something faster and better still and you could be using it in all your DX9 games, right now?
You’ve heard of flops, a.k.a floating point operations per second, before in video game circles. Who can forget the riveting moment in former Sony exec Ken Kutaragi’s 2005 E3 PS3 presentation when he talked about how many gigaflops the system’s processors would be capable of? Boring tech presentations aside, flops are great indicators of computing power. Today’s consoles sit in the gigaflop range but, according to Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, they’ll get exponentially more powerful in less than a decade.
Having spent an extensive amount of time playing games on a dual core Tegra 2 Android tablet, I can only imagine how much better gaming must be on the new quad core Tegra 3-powered Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime. Why? Because I don’t have one. Joanna Stern at The Verge does, however, so we’ll let her tell us how it games.
While console players are busy exploring everything Batman: Arkham City has to offer, PC gamers have to wait until November 15 to don the cape and cowl. NVIDIA gives them something to look forward to with a video showing off how PhysX makes with the dust and clutter.
The computer version of Rage hasn’t exactly been trouble free for some folks trying to play id Software’s latest creation. I haven’t run into any over issues, but I’ve got a high-end tower that I just ran through a massive driver update. That’s not the norm.
When Nvidia was in the Kotaku offices the other day showing off, well, something we can’t quite talk about yet, they noticed we didn’t have a dedicated gaming PC. (All of Kotaku‘s gaming rigs are in the homes of our writers, including mine.) So they had Falcon Northwest cook up a nice little rig — Intel i7 2600K (overclocked), 4GB RAM and a couple of GTX580 cards with a 1.5GB of onboard RAM in SLI.
