Today nVidia launches two new graphics chips and 3 new cards for each, making it six new products. While the GeForce4 Ti series of cards will be using the new high-end chip with the code name ‘NV25’, the GeForce4 MX value series (the chip used in the new PowerMacs) will be based on nVidia’s new low-cost (and comperatively much slower) solution ‘NV17’. Get the rest of the scoop & benchmarks at Tom’s Hardware. On Monday both ATi and nVidia launched new versions of the ATi Radeon 8500 and the GeForce3 Ti-200 respectively, with 128 MB of RAM. Benchmarks showed that more RAM did not bring more speed and that such a purchase is not justifiable until the new games have such requirements. Update: Anandtech has some interesting benchmarks.
nVidia Introduces GeForce 4
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128mb of Ram on a graphics card? ouch.. when will AGP ever be useful? at it’s current bandwidth it’s gonna take alot more than a jump to AGP8x to do anything useful..
Jesus. So… Should I bother getting a GF3 when the prices drop on the GF4’s arrival, or should I just wait another 3 months for when the NEXT generation nVidia card shows up?
Doom 3! Doom 3! Doom 3! D… etc etc.
naah.. Acidic Nun.. why wait for Nvidia.. they might have the speed crown, but they are far behind feature wise.. if you’re gonna wait for something, wait for ATI’s R300.. it’ll be a DX9 part around april/may..
but if you go for the GF3, wait till after the prices drop!
I dunno. I have a Radeon 32DDR and I’ve noticed lots of weird things that don’t happen elsewhere. Like, odd clipping problems, texture problems and assorted lighting problems. I suppose it’s a driver issue, since that’s what everyone else seems to blame things on.
I would go for the low end GF4 (not the MX). If it goes for $199 that’s not too bad, and still slightly faster than the GF3. That would get my vote.
If nVidia solves the obfuscated source driver issue and start supporting some other OS I’ll move to nVidia if not… I’ll wait for Radeon support on them
ATM I’m using a RADEON DDR64 and it works quite fine on Linux, QNX and BeOS (I didn’t setup a BSD yet), few days ago I look at a friend box with a GF3 and Mandrake8.1 on it… the 2d quality just sucks =/ but the 3d was blazing fast (something like 600fps on egoboo).
Man… and I just have a voodoo 3. Not even a GeForce 2!
The new Apple iMac ships with a GeForce 2 MX. The new Apple 933Mhz and Dual 1GHz G4 desktop systems ship with the GeForce 4 MX.
>>The new Apple 933Mhz and Dual 1GHz G4 desktop systems ship with the GeForce 4 MX.<<
And will soon ship with the GeForce 4 Titanium…
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020206/sfw019_1.html
The new iMac uses the GeForce 2 MX card, and the recently speed-bumped PowerMac’s use the new GeForce 4 MX cards.
The proof is in the pudding.
http://www.apple.com/imac
http://www.apple.com/powermac
and the RADEON 8500 MAC as choice….
http://www.ati.com
As of March Power Macs will have the option for a GeForce 4 Titanium… of course for some extra clams!
The pudding is in the proof.
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020206/sfw019_1.html
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0202/05.applenvidia.php
My company writes a 3D visualization engine that hits the OpenGL code pretty hard. Because we are doing astrodynamics visualization, our near far ratios are enormous compared to your average game. And we really exercise the assumptions of the underlying drivers. Bottom line, the best OpenGL drivers for these consumer quality cards has been nVidia, hands down. I don’t know if their lack of readibility is important when they work 99% of the time. ATI is usually a disaster, but they are getting better. The driver problem is not just an excuse published by software manufacturers, it is a real problem.
“Man… and I just have a voodoo 3.”
LOL I still remember when I bought mine. Super happy to upgrade, I came home with my box, sit in front of my PC before shuting it down to put my new card, take a look at Slashdot, learn that 3dfx just closed doors…
Man …
(Now just got a GF3-Ti, and very happy of my new toy)
well, Steve, at least you got that voodoo cheap
I remember they were going for a song around that time.
I once had a Voodoo 3 3000 and traded it with a friend for a Diamond Viper 770 Ultra (TNT2 card). Sometimes I wonder if that was the smartest thing in the world to do
Anyway, I’m still running with the TNT2 card which does just fine, considering I don’t use my PC for gaming. And at the rate and price that these new 3D cards are coming out, I’m glad I don’t
Are there even any games out that actually take full advantage of the current GeForce 3 cards?