Not a lot of people have noticed that in the specs for the latest Radeon HD 5000 series GPUs the guys at ATI have added one interesting new feature that is becoming to generate quite a lot if interest lately. Yes, we are talking about the “3D stereoscopic display/glasses support” thingy that is present in the specs for every Radeon HD 5870, 5850, 5770 and 5850 VGA, but that is pretty much everything there is. There is a little bit of “clarification” present in the specs, the little 13 index at the end states that “Requires 3D stereo drivers, glasses, and display” that actually does not clarify a thing about the stereoscopic 3D support!
Now, the funny thing is that ATI does not say a thing about this S3D support of theirs in any of the official presentations or documents available when the Radeon HD 5000 series was officially announced to the press. The company PRs are totally unaware of what that feature actually means and cannot give any more info than what is available in specifications page on the official website. Moreover after forwarding the questions on WTF is this S3D thingy to ATI’s engineers in Canada, two weeks ago, there is still no response at all even from them!
On the other hand people from NVIDIA say that this is just some dumb paper launch, that ATI has absolutely nothing to offer in the stereoscopic 3D front at all, so still no alternative to Nvidia’s GeForce 3D Vision of any kind. And based on all of the above info we are pretty much convinced that what is coming from Nvidia is absolutely true and that the guys from ATI totally messed up this time trying to be the first on the market, again, with new technology on every level, even with some that they even still don’t have or don’t even know about… so what do you think, how twisted this thing is on a scale from 1 to 10?
9/10 for the lame S3D features paper launch that nobody knows about
Higher Twisted Rating is worse!
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