Doom 3

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At the moment there are only plans to release DOOM 3 on PC and X-Box.

from John Carmack
There are interesting things to be said about the upcoming cards,but NDAs will force me to just discuss the available cards. In order frombest to worst for DOOM: · I still think that overall, the GeForce 4Ti is the best card you can buy. It has high speed and excellent driver quality.· Based on the feature set, the Radeon 8500 should be a faster cardfor DOOM than the GF4, because it can do the seven texture accesses that I need in a single pass, while it takes two or three passes (depending on details)on the GF4. However, in practice, the GF4 consistently runs faster due toa highly efficient implementation. For programmers, the 8500 has a much nicerfragment path than the GF4, with more general features and increased precision, but the driver quality is still quite a ways from Nvidia's, so I would bea little hesitant to use it as a primary research platform.

· The GF4-MX is a very fast card for existing games, but it is lesswell suited to DOOM, due to the lower texture unit count and the lack of vertexshaders.

· On a slow CPU with all features enabled, the GF3 will be faster thanthe GF4-MX, because it offloads some work. On systems with CPU power to burn,the GF4 may still be faster.

· The 128 bit DDR GF2 systems will be faster than the Radeon-7500 systems,again due to low level implementation details overshadowing the extra textureunit.

· The slowest cards will be the 64 bit and SDR ram GF and Radeon cards,which will really not be fast enough to play the game properly unless yourun at 320x240 or so.