HolyGrenade
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I am not a fan of any manufacturer, but technology. As I have said many times before, the Tile based renderring is a good technology. But by it self it cannot sell a card. I think the Kyro 2 is what the Kyro 1 was supposed to be when that was released. It has been delayed far too much. Now you have to wait another month (according to the anandtech people).My point in the previous point was that this card does not compare to the GF2 Ultra or the GF3 as powervr2 was trying to promote it. It does provide good competition in the low end of the market, such as against the likes of the GF mx and the GF gts and the low end radeons.
From a technology point of view, the kyro tries to deny the graphics in games from evolving. Personally I don't think its sale figures will not be very different from the original kyro. A lot of the low end cards get sold as part of oem deals. The bigger oem companies have deals with Ati and nVidia. Some of the smaller oems even have exclusive deals with the manufacturers. Some of the oem's selling computers equiped with nVidia are advertising their computers as having "Graphics to the n'th degree." The people that don't know much about computers don't know what it is bu they want it. Its almost like intels catch phrase "Intel inside". People didn't know what it was but they wanted it. Besides, nVidia and Ati have established brand names that also helps the oems' sell their computers.
Performance buyers will not be buying the Kyro because of the future prospects with the lack of T&L and whatnot. The good people at anandtech say:
<i>"If, however, you must upgrade now and won’t upgrade again for quite a while (read: over 9 – 12 months), then the GeForce3 may be an investment worth looking at."</i>
9 - 12 months... 'quite a while'? In my book that is a short period to have a graphics card. I've had my GeForce DDR since its launch. Now that is 'quite a while'.
Since they are big fans of the Kyro 2, I would tend to interprete that phrase as saying, only buy a Kyro 2 as long as you can afford to upgrade again in 9 - 12 months time. You know, people like powervr2, who have a Kyro 1, but are upgrading to a Kyro2, and are likely to upgrade again when the next incarnation of the card is released and so on.
I still retain my original views of this card as being overrated and released far too late. I my self will be waiting to see the different flavours of the GF3 or GF4, different flavours of the next generation Radeon or power vr, providing they have T&L, Pixel and vertex shaders and a few other key features. After that I probably won't be upgrading again until cards with onboard Voxel shaders/Accelerators/renderrers are available. This is probably a couple of years away.
<font color=red>"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and dispair!"</font color=red>
From a technology point of view, the kyro tries to deny the graphics in games from evolving. Personally I don't think its sale figures will not be very different from the original kyro. A lot of the low end cards get sold as part of oem deals. The bigger oem companies have deals with Ati and nVidia. Some of the smaller oems even have exclusive deals with the manufacturers. Some of the oem's selling computers equiped with nVidia are advertising their computers as having "Graphics to the n'th degree." The people that don't know much about computers don't know what it is bu they want it. Its almost like intels catch phrase "Intel inside". People didn't know what it was but they wanted it. Besides, nVidia and Ati have established brand names that also helps the oems' sell their computers.
Performance buyers will not be buying the Kyro because of the future prospects with the lack of T&L and whatnot. The good people at anandtech say:
<i>"If, however, you must upgrade now and won’t upgrade again for quite a while (read: over 9 – 12 months), then the GeForce3 may be an investment worth looking at."</i>
9 - 12 months... 'quite a while'? In my book that is a short period to have a graphics card. I've had my GeForce DDR since its launch. Now that is 'quite a while'.
Since they are big fans of the Kyro 2, I would tend to interprete that phrase as saying, only buy a Kyro 2 as long as you can afford to upgrade again in 9 - 12 months time. You know, people like powervr2, who have a Kyro 1, but are upgrading to a Kyro2, and are likely to upgrade again when the next incarnation of the card is released and so on.
I still retain my original views of this card as being overrated and released far too late. I my self will be waiting to see the different flavours of the GF3 or GF4, different flavours of the next generation Radeon or power vr, providing they have T&L, Pixel and vertex shaders and a few other key features. After that I probably won't be upgrading again until cards with onboard Voxel shaders/Accelerators/renderrers are available. This is probably a couple of years away.
<font color=red>"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and dispair!"</font color=red>