We all know that 3dfx has surcome to the might of Nvidia and we thank the once powerfull 3d-chip maker for it`s piece of history. That said, I have been to Nvidia`s home page and seen all the hype (can`t miss it) of the nv20 or Geforce3 card. Well on paper it looks very good with new technology such as nfiniteFX, Lightspeed Memory Architecture, Vertex Shaders and Pixel Shaders and so on....
But the benchmarks say another thing...the Geforce2 Ultra, while it lacks the new technology, still seems to beat Nvidia`s new monster in most tests. Now you may argue that new software will be written that will optomise these new functions (which it will) and that it is still not 100% complete (still writting driver code), but are we now looking at a Pentium 4 vs 3 story here? I mean great that we now have a whole host of new features that will be used very soon, but what about the other features that are being ignored or rather not improved on. Try this link and you will see what I mean http://www.digit-life.com/articles/gf3/index.html
I`m sure that the guys at Nvidia have a very good marketing and planning team. It seems that there will always be a `gts` followed by a `pro` and then `ultra` with a `mx` inbetween for good measure and in no dought the ultra g3 WILL beat the ultra g2 in these same benches.
But the benchmarks say another thing...the Geforce2 Ultra, while it lacks the new technology, still seems to beat Nvidia`s new monster in most tests. Now you may argue that new software will be written that will optomise these new functions (which it will) and that it is still not 100% complete (still writting driver code), but are we now looking at a Pentium 4 vs 3 story here? I mean great that we now have a whole host of new features that will be used very soon, but what about the other features that are being ignored or rather not improved on. Try this link and you will see what I mean http://www.digit-life.com/articles/gf3/index.html
I`m sure that the guys at Nvidia have a very good marketing and planning team. It seems that there will always be a `gts` followed by a `pro` and then `ultra` with a `mx` inbetween for good measure and in no dought the ultra g3 WILL beat the ultra g2 in these same benches.