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[IMG News]

Though ATI didn't have a booth presence this year, Chris Bentley was on hand for a little Q&A regarding the GPU maker's past, present, and future plans regarding Apple and Mac gaming in general. According to Chris, the relationship between Apple and ATI continues to remain strong, with 10 ATI products in 2006 having made it into various Apple products.

One of the biggest developments in recent memory is the implementation of multi-threaded OpenGL. Though ATI doesn't take any direct credit, Chris notes that they did nudge an initially reluctant Apple in the right direction. Once the performance gains were seen, Apple picked up the ball from there. Thanks to this, along with the switch to Intel processors, ATI has managed to narrow the Mac/PC performance to a small margin.

In info related to OpenGL, Chris adds that both ATI and Nvidia are collaborating to make sure that it doesn't fall behind DX10. While OpenGL is currently missing features that DX10 boasts, both graphics companies are working hard to migrate those features over.

As for future plans, we couldn't get any direct news, but the promise of a large leap in the coming year over the X1900 was given.

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[Hobeaux]

IMG News, on January 12th 2007, 07:24 AM, said:

In info related to OpenGL, Chris adds that both ATI and Nvidia are collaborating to make sure that it doesn't fall behind DX10. While OpenGL is currently missing features that DX10 boasts, both graphics companies are working hard to migrate those features over.

Anything that makes it easier and more compelling for game developers to get their games onto the Mac (and quickly) I'm all for it. Let the speed increases begin!

[JoAT]

IMG News, on January 12th 2007, 10:24 AM, said:

...but the promise of a large leap in the coming year over the X1900 was given.

Um, isn't a "large leap" in the graphics market made every year?

[Blackshawk]

Apple actually innovate in the graphics department? Crap, they've been the slug of the bunch since........ creation. Its really sad that ATI has to push Apple to make these sort of changes, and an indicator of Apple's overall opinion toward the gaming industry. They just don't care.

[teflon]

JoAT, on January 12th 2007, 05:39 PM, said:

Um, isn't a "large leap" in the graphics market made every year?

not like from DX9 cards to DX10 cards... that really is something to shout about, and the sooner that Apple gets them integrated into their macs, the better, cos otherwise we might get left behind with DX 9, which isnt future proof anymore.

anyone that buys a new mac should be able to run Halo 2 in Boot Camp with all settings turned up.