NVIDIA to Release OpenGL 3.0 Drivers September

Eddy Luten — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:54:22 +0000

It’s been a while since I posted but this one will make up for it. A messy screenshot of NVIDIA’s 2008 timeline has emerged on Chilehardware (CHW) and reveals that OpenGL 3.0 drivers/implementation will be due in September of this year in a collection called Big Bang II (Big Bang I was SLI).

CHW member KaiserGerhardI has provided a deciphering of the screenshot which provides more information on the contents of the screenshot:

First: Quad ?????? Release February
Hybrid Shipped Spring
Spring Notebook Cycle
GT200 + ????
Big Bang II-Fall Will Focus on
- Now/WWW features
- SLI connectivity features
- Display connectivity
- Quality improvements
- Performance improvements
- OpenGL 3.0

The words which could not be deciphered are marked with question marks. What this means for OpenGL enthusiasts and developers is that we won’t have to attend SIGGRAPH, NVISION or any other meeting for that matter, since this is basically a confirmation on its own.

Now, let’s hope that ATI will also provide an implementation this soon.

DirectX 11 @ NVISION 2008

Eddy Luten — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:15:15 +0000

DirectX 11 is to be presented at NVISION 08, click here for details.

Looking at the few mentioned features on the page (tessellation, multithreaded rendering, compute shaders, Shader Model 5), I’d say OpenGL is in big trouble if they want to catch up.

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NVIDIA to Release OpenGL 3.0 Drivers September

DirectX 11 @ NVISION 2008