Texture intensive or Shader Intensive????

[brasscorpion]

Just a quick question. Are the games now and in the future heading to a more texture intensive code or a more shader intensive code?

It looks like the ATI cards kick the crud out of Geforce cards in shader intensive applications.

So it makes no sense for me to purchase a Geforce GPU if new games are heading down a path of being more shader intensive.

Brass

 

[ITSTHINKING]

rigght unless your totaly ignoring the 8 series cards, then your "sort of" right.

 

[Brent_Justice]

The trend is moving toward more shader intensive scenerios. But, textures are still in use and increasing in size, so framebuffer size and performance will still be important.