Well its not atall representative, since a good deal of the ppl having a GF3/GF4/R8500 had a GF2 class card prior to that and a good deal of their previous scores are still in the database ;)
Were you reading the "Nvidia Fan Kit" or something? Radeon cards does have better performance in D3D usually, but only by a very small margin.
The only place you will see a GF4 Ti4200 beat the R9700 is in quake3 at 640*480*16 with all eyecandy set to minimum. But that isnt representative for...
Hehe interresting.
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Oh btw. PLZ look in on that ad-server problem that causes Opera to be useless at R3D. I hardly go there anymore because of it, and R3D is the only site I have experienced it. And its not a vB problem.
ATI's launch. I think the "Title Club" thing was kinda lame, but I guess its true that it works better when ur actually there.
GF4 FX vs. R9200.
Well ATI are clearly stating the exact specs and compatibility of the R9200. So its kinda paranoid to say "It is diliberately meant to mislead...
Hehe looks like Derek scored. ;)
Maybe Derek's games don't pull as much weight with the ATI driver team, as John Carmack does and maybe that is pretty logical. But I would just like to say that I couldn't care less about what Carmack says, Quake is the only ID game that I consider a good...