New Company - Caustic Graphics - Breaks Barriers in 3D Graphics

[Frick]

@ 1280 with all graphics on low? I won't play Crysis until it's playable while it looks pretty.

Bah, you spoiled thing you.

 

[DrPepper]

@ 1280 with all graphics on low? I won't play Crysis until it's playable while it looks pretty.

Who cares what it looks like as long as the story is good. Then again good graphics add to the immersion.

 

[VulkanBros]

3DFx over again - question is: who will shuffle it under their wings?

 

[Mussels]

something occured to me. with a name like that i'm glad they arent making thermal paste.

 

[Marineborn]

i hope they slap some sense into nvidia and ati..hopefully making them get there shit together. heres hoping hahahahhaha

 

[VulkanBros]

something occured to me. with a name like that i'm glad they arent making thermal paste.

your right.....sounds like toothpaste .... or bublegum .... or toilet cleaner .... arhhhh crap

 

[Pete1burn]

lol

Clean up your bathroom with Caustic!

 

[zithe]

Sounds more like a crappy energy drink to me.

 

[Rexter]

Just about any card can play crysis. My friend completed it on a 7300GS.

Sorry my failed attempt at a "can it play crysis" joke

 

[Disparia]

+1.

That's what companies like Intel, AMD, NVIDIA do: make sure a technology isn't received well by the market, weaken the company behind it, acquire it (and its technology). Later sell the same technology like it's the best thing since sliced bread.

Hmm... time to take bets that Intel just happens to have another Daniel Pohl/CPU RayTracing press demo ready to go?

It's been some time since the last demo, so I'm sure Intel has him on their latest (quad sex-core) with improved visuals. Also, Daniel has been doing this for several years. Caustics has a press release...

 

[DrPepper]

Sorry my failed attempt at a "can it play crysis" joke

Its not your fault, We need a new game to bash.

 

[eidairaman1]

+1.

That's what companies like Intel, AMD, NVIDIA do: make sure a technology isn't received well by the market, weaken the company behind it, acquire it (and its technology). Later sell the same technology like it's the best thing since sliced bread.

Good ol NV for that. But other news, AMD has been ray tracing since the production of transformers in 2007, so the race is going to be interesting. Beyond that isn't this basically the product that Intel was wanting to release in the form of Larabee. Btw Fleck thats a PCI 4x connector, but seriously it needs to be atleast 8x speed if it wants to be a good part, otherwise the PCI E16 slot will go to waste, it will be like AGP all over again.

 

[PCpraiser100]

Talk about getting pwned by an underdog

 

[iStink]

So wait a second, this card offers extreme performance in ray tracing, but what about other present day technologies? Will this be like a PhysX card which someone adds to their system or will it be a true video card replacement?

 

[PCpraiser100]

So wait a second, this card offers extreme performance in ray tracing, but what about other present day technologies? Will this be like a PhysX card which someone adds to their system or will it be a true video card replacement?

No, but they will be begged for that technology. I betcha that Nvidia and ATI are going to race for a partnership.

 

[Selene]

I can see it now, NV will buy this, then tell us the 8800GT/9800GT/GTS240 can already do this, and rebrand it as GTO 340 RT , and sell it for $399.99 first raytracing video card.

 

[LittleLizard]

yay, someone who could get involved in 3D who isnt ATI or Nvidia.

61 to that

 

[LittleLizard]

nice, at least, something that ati can buy

 

[El Fiendo]

Yes, and once the GTO 340 RT hits the market, manufacturers will delight in playing scrabble with the letters to create their own named product. You too could own an XFX GTOX 340 RT XXX Alpha X Edition: Now with Xtra X. Or perhaps an MSI version. But seeming that simply reversing the product name isn't confusing enough, MSI will release the RT 3G4T0O. And because the Transformers 2 movie is coming out soon, expect to see a Megatron, Optimus, and or Unicron Edition, because 'Dark Knight' is now too old to use.

 

[iStink]

If it's only code video cards can already handle, I think it should be something this company licenses out to anyone who wants it. That's how they would make real money.

I think physx had attempted too hard (and failed) at becoming it's own entity and found themselves desperate for money. At that point, licensing out their code to nvidia and ati wouldn't have yielded enough money to make up for their lossed profits. If Caustic does this right, they can have a strong arm over nvidia and ati for years to come (something many people never thought possible.)

 

[PCpraiser100]

Seriously, I am hoping that ATI gets it as they are always getting f***ed over by Nvidia through partnerships. Instead of being collaborative, be collaborated.

 

[MTnumb]

is it just me or are those really SO-DIMMs?
if so it would be great to just put on the card as much memory as you like.

 

[DrPepper]

is it just me or are those really SO-DIMMs?
if so it would be great to just put on the card as much memory as you like.

Indeed it is sodimms.

 

[BOSE]

If anything, these cards will be used by big Hollywood movie studios to make CGI even more real.

You cant play games on that card, it doesnt even have monitor ports, its more of a rendering card, that does calculations and then spits it back out when its done.

It even has by the looks of it, DDR2 RAM modules.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Hahahaha...
BOSE, I was just about to say what you wrote.
This is NOT a graphics card, it's a rendering engine.
If you go and have a read on their website, it says that you still need a GPU and a CPU.
The card handles the complex raytracing parts and the CPU and the GPU does the rest to spruce up the graphics, such as shading.
The memory might well be DDR3, as there are DDR3 SO-DIMM's.