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Look at Jedi Knight 2 in the same article - the LE does 99.8fps at 1024x768, slower than the GF4 Ti, slower than the GF3s, slower than the GF4 MXs. At 1280x1024 it does the same 99.8fps, now only the GF4 Ti is faster. At 800x600 the LE did only 99.3fps, and the 64mb Radeon was also slower than...

Could all you guys possibly be so wrong? Before I tell you the answer to the question of what Anandtech is talking about here, I base this on the writer sticking to the basic tenets of writing. Not always the case, but probably is here. So what is the subject of this article? Sub-$200 video...

Oh, but you are so very wrong. The GF4 MX440 crushes the GF2 MX400 in every conceivable area. Compare it to the GF3 Ti 200 and it's not quite as cut-and-dried as you might suspect. They both have a 128-bit interface and 200mhz DDR memory, and the Ti has the first version of Lightspeed while the...

A few comments from someone who isn't all that focused on the esoteric minutia of the technology: The people who focus most closely on the initial reviews are the ones who know the most about such things, and are unlikely to make buying decisions based solely on them and their oversimplified...

Yeah, I guess that makes some sense. But that's pretty thin evidence of a real problem with 64mb cards. In any case, I do think it's a little irritating that nVidia has presented this choice between 128mb and a card that is a bit slower in almost all current games, or 64mb and a card that is a...

Where do you get this? The TH test doesn't even use a true 64megger, rather clocks up the memory on their 128mb version for benchmarking. And they don't even do this under the AA tests. HardOCP's test is only on the 64mb version, so again no comparative results. FiringSquad does benchmark both...

If you look at 3Dfx, over the course of a bit over a year they released the Voodoo Rush, Voodoo2, Vodoo Banshee and Voodoo3. They stalled out on the Voodoo5 after they started losing money in mid-'99, but it was at least intended to be released late that year. Whatever you say about the...

So what? Not sure I'm following you. As in, who cares about real products that are on the market, let's speculate about the sixteen pipeline, quad texture units per pipeline, 512mb of 400mhz DDR II memory, etc., etc. board that surely will be out by the fall? As in, all that matters are the...

Just shows how much the ATi 128mb 8500/8500LE shook 'em up at nVidia. They planned to make $299 the price of admission to the real GF4 club, tried to pan the MX thing off on the rest of us, and at close to $200, and quietly run off the rest of the GF3s at acceptable prices. But then they freaked...

That's ATi, and nVidia seems to live in a different world. ATi could put out their 8500 with 275mhz DDR memory at $299, but nVidia charged $100 more for their Ti 500 with only 250mhz memory. My guess is that the charge their boardmakers much more than ATi does, which has been confirmed by...

:-? I just don't quite understand this. They say it's a reference board and the fan doesn't look like what would be on a GF4 reference board (I can't recognize it, looks vagually familiar, like the GF3 reference fan). They say it has a 250mhz core, faster than initially indicated, and 250mhz...

But doesn't this in itself make its use a poor way of evaluating real-world gaming performance? I mean, if you took the top twenty selling 3D games and ran them on a GF2 and on a GF4 and the framerate is about the same, doesn't that say the speed of the videocard at that level is irrelevant...

I don't think this reflects reality. Yes, some OEMs still use TNTs and Rage128s and even Rage Pros, but which OEMs are they? I see them mostly in ads by mom-n-pop shops, and always in cheesy $600 boxes. No one is going to do any sort of serious gaming on these things, so who cares? The big OEMs...

It just looks too much like their current products pages - why would they have those more info links on the right? Why wouldn't it be in their "what's new" section instead? The Windows NT support would be a surprise - the G550 doesn't even indicate support for that OS. And stuff like 128-bit...

It just looks too much like their current products pages - why would they have those more info links on the right? Why wouldn't it be in their "what's new" section instead? The Windows NT support would be a surprise - the G550 doesn't even indicate support for that OS. And stuff like 128-bit...