hi,
I am getting a new box with Athlon64 3800+ (512KB L2 @ 2.0Ghz) and a NForce 4 Ultra motherboard and 2GiB DDR400 RAM.
I am using Linux and I DON’T play games.
I believe NVidia supports OpenGL 2.0
I want to get an NVidia card that supports OpenGL-2.0 because I can see a difference when playing my movies with using video output OpenGL rather than using an X driver.
(use mplayer -vo gl2 or mplayer -vo gl or change the video drive in xine to gl2 and see the results )
So does OpenGL cards really affect the video output ?
Is OpenGL 2.0 much better than OpenGL 1.5 ?
References on HDTV are welcome
Does L2 cache size of the processor and/or RAM matter when I use OpenGL ?
Well mplayer -vo gl2 simply uses a different way of GL output (using multiple textures and dirty rectangles) and in no way seem related to OpenGL 2.0 : both gl and gl2 need OpenGL >= 1.2
Any cheap modern nvidia would work anyway (ati gl drivers for linux are improving but still not that good)
You can go ahead and buy your card [/b]
I was thinking of getting the NVidia 6600 and not NVidia 6600GT. I think only 6600 GT models support OpenGL 2.0 and not simple 6600 models.
The link you give I think it reffers to NVidia 6600GT.
All the cards (even 6800GT) claim to support only OpenGL 1.5 and that got me confused.
Does this mean that 6200/6600 card or 6xxx as written by xyz support in their hardware OpenGL 2.0 but it’s up to the drivers for the rest ?