PS 2.0b is all you need?

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Pixel Shader 2.0b is more than enough for everything

 

"ATI SENT A CLEAR message to the press invited to its London "Shader Day" event. Richard Huddy, the firm's head of European developers relations told us all that you can shade everything you need to with the 2.0b shader.

He made it clear that most complex shader program in Half life 2 is 90 instructions long. Shader model 2.0b is limited to 768 instructions which is more than enough.

 

Shader model 3.0, heavily promoted by Nvidia, is limited to 65536. Crytek's most complex shader that it uses to creat incredible looking water in Far Cry is 50 instructions long.

 

Crytek CEO and key Far Cry person Cevat Yerili showed us a very interesting presentation and talked about the firm's future plans and the current Shader situation. It presented a new demo that it's delivered to ATI. It's based on the Far Cry 1.3 engine and I have to admit it looked very impressive and puts the Ruby demo to shame. I guess that ATI will use this demo to highlight the potential of new X850 cards that are scheduled for launch on the first day of December."

 

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