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Glaive · 10-26-2003, 08:12 PM

They're not THAT bad, it's just that they aren't that good, either, and since the prices are comparable to ATI, it makes more sense to go with the ATI cards.

The specific issue they have is their DX9 performance, more specifically shaders and trilinear filtering. In general, it seems the FX series cards are not as "designed for DX9" as Nvidia would have us believe. If you look at performance on DX8 games, the difference between the top offerings from both companies are pretty close. It's just DX9 where they start to very noticably diverge from each other.

I agree, the next Nvidia GPU, NV40, will need to be something spectacular. If not, then Nvidia looks to be permanently assigned to the Land of Suck.

10-26-2003, 08:12 PM	#11
Glaive Member (8 bit) Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: 1986, I think Posts: 200	hehe They're not THAT bad, it's just that they aren't that good, either, and since the prices are comparable to ATI, it makes more sense to go with the ATI cards. The specific issue they have is their DX9 performance, more specifically shaders and trilinear filtering. In general, it seems the FX series cards are not as "designed for DX9" as Nvidia would have us believe. If you look at performance on DX8 games, the difference between the top offerings from both companies are pretty close. It's just DX9 where they start to very noticably diverge from each other. I agree, the next Nvidia GPU, NV40, will need to be something spectacular. If not, then Nvidia looks to be permanently assigned to the Land of Suck.