The Digital Foundry Face-off we've all been waiting for his here

[lucidium]

curl-6 said:

lucidium said:

curl-6 said:

Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

Now we can welcome everyone to the GLORIOUS PC MASTER RACE of 10 years ago :D.

How many people were gaming at 1080p in early 2004?

A lot of gamers were running 1600x1200 on CRT at the time, which is virtually the same number of pixels just at 4:3 aspect ratio.

I didn't know that.

Was it native though? Even if the monitors existed to support it, could GPUs of the time handle that amount of pixels? In a high end game, anyway?

Depending on the graphics card yeah, native.
I was playing Quake 2 on my pc at 1600x1200 at 85hz way back in 1997 on my pc running two voodoo 2's in sli, so im pretty sure pretty much all cards by 2004 were capable of both displaying and playing games of the day at 1600x1200

Hell one of my best buddies used to play Kingpin on his single geforce2 mx around about 2001 ish, at 1600x1200, and it was silky smooth.