Regarding Tom's latest review of two cards:
I'm not a professional graphics card user. However, it seems to me that for a person who makes his/her living off his/her videocard, or for a company that has to install cards in 100s or 1000s of computers, the most important factor is not the raw performance, but rather reliability.
This was not mentioned at all in the review.
The Geforce2 GTS card has in some tests greatly surpassed the FireGL card, while being one fifth the price. So why don't companies buy it? Because they're not willing to mess around with mobos, drivers and setup as much as we are. They want to stick it in and have it work until they decide to stick something else in
It seems to me therefore that review has completely missed the requirements of its market audience. Just listing the features (available in the brochure) and running a few pre-made benchmarks is hardly an effort or a conclusive review of a $1200 investment...
Again though, I'm not a professional user, so I'm eager to be educated on how professional CAD designers etc use their cards and how useful was this review to them
I'm not a professional graphics card user. However, it seems to me that for a person who makes his/her living off his/her videocard, or for a company that has to install cards in 100s or 1000s of computers, the most important factor is not the raw performance, but rather reliability.
This was not mentioned at all in the review.
The Geforce2 GTS card has in some tests greatly surpassed the FireGL card, while being one fifth the price. So why don't companies buy it? Because they're not willing to mess around with mobos, drivers and setup as much as we are. They want to stick it in and have it work until they decide to stick something else in
It seems to me therefore that review has completely missed the requirements of its market audience. Just listing the features (available in the brochure) and running a few pre-made benchmarks is hardly an effort or a conclusive review of a $1200 investment...
Again though, I'm not a professional user, so I'm eager to be educated on how professional CAD designers etc use their cards and how useful was this review to them