No Kyro just Geforce 3 news for everybody

[ThExorcist]

Thought some of you might enjoy this in case you missed it!!!

GF3

Also thought some of you might like seeing how far we have come in side by side tests of the newer cards with some of the best old card configurations from your paperweight voodoo's and virge's and what have you...

Nostalgia

 

[TravisBickle]

nice link to the old video cards. I'm not surprised the reviewer got tired of benchmarking that many cards. v3 2000 faster than the G400? didn't know that. his conclusion didn't surprise me though. now how did you find that place?
any news on the GF4 that doesn't hint at what it took from Rampage probably isn't substantial news at all IMO.

 

[RobsTV]

Another great comparison site that lists side by side benchmarks of all the new and old cards together, and is updated monthly is:
Summary diagrams of videocards' perfomance with the latest drivers for June '2001

I'm sure the results may surprise a lot of you. Even a Voodoo3 can compete with some of the latest cards in some of the latest games! (is that a good thing for V3, or a bad thing for the other card?) Another thing I found interesting is the 32bit/16bit comparison. I see a lot of posts about 1 card being faster than another. Some newer cards show little speed boost going from 32 bit to 16 bit, while others can get a 50% or more boost switching to 16bit. It breaks down to a card being able to barely edge out another card at 32bit (1-3fps), while it is maxed out, and the slightly slower 32 bit card can switch to 16bit, and then blow the doors off the other card (20-30fps). Not saying you would switch to 16bit, but at least you can get a big boost with some, while with others it dosn't matter.

They also have a fair usability rating system at the end, that takes into account nearly every possibility, and adds up the points to show how all the cards compare, new and old.

 

[BenSkywalker]

"So this year, from high end Nvidia, we can only expect the overclocked ultra version, according to current plans. 128 MB of RAM can be expected and heavily clocked versions of both memory and GPU."

Is it just me, or does this come across to anyone else as exactly what nV has always done? Actually, the only difference between the GeForce 1 SDR from Q3 '99 and the GF2 Ultra from Q3 '00 was an added texture unit per pixel pipe and clock speed of core and RAM. There was no difference save clock speed and supported RAM between the TNT1 and TNT2, Riva and Riva128ZX was RAM and clock speed also. No new features for a year is the norm with eighteen months occuring once already, is the Inquirer predicting that this is now going to happen for the first time?

 

[pidge]

I have stated this in other forums. The Inquirer is a bunch of hot air. So much hot air that it can carry a hot air balloon around the world 4 times. In the past, The Register was known for sometimes taking any old rumour and blasting it on their website as truth. The Register had done a better job at verifying its stories lately and they are not so bad anymore. The Inquirer is 100x worse than The Register. Take it from someone who is in the technology field and who has a lot of connections. Much of what is displayed on the Inquirer is hot air, especially when they mention their news is an Inquirer exclusive. I am avoiding The Inquirer until they start doing a better job of verifying a story.

BTW,
I really doubt what the article states is true. I know this has been similar pattern in the past and that is why they wrote this article but NVIDIA is not stupid. If they know they have competition, they will make sure they have the fastest product out on the market.