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State of the Graphics Card industry...Fall 2001
Well Boys and Girls heres my View of the Gfx Card Industry as of now:
Nvidia: Geforce 3Ti series....nothing but a warmed over verison of the Geforce3 series. No new features execpt a higher price tag and memory Speed. Good news is that it doesn't look like a next generation Product will come from them till next fall, Finally breaking their 6 month product refresh cycle. 2d Quatily Problems might still be there..though I have no first hand knowelege of this.
ATI: Radeon 7500/8500 are released to much fan fair. Websites where finally prasing a product that could Finally beat Nvidia at their own game. After the hands-on reviews, they are very disapointed to find out that nothing has really changed at ATI...the Drivers still suck and to top it off ATI has been Opitimizing/Cheating at the bench marks for Quake3. The OEM/Retail Clock Speeds are another thorn in ATI side for the lack of info and confustion that a comment that was made a month ago stating that the OEM/Retail Clocks would be the same.
Matrox: Well still nothing new here. G550 has been a major dissapointment with the OEM (Matrox's supposed main clients) with no OEM wins. Still using techongly at based of a product that is 18 months old. Many rumors of Next Generation card coming "soon". Also a rumor that the card will be based or have tech licenced from Bitboyzs. For more depressing info see here:
Link .
STmicro: Makers of the Kyro I/II series of cards. No news since the Kryo2 has come out. Rumors of a higher clocked card have so far turned out to be just rumors. The kryo III is supposed to be a higher clocked card with T&L and a programable Pixel Shader built into it. Make next year we will see it.
BitBoyz: Lots of rumors circulating on this front. we might accucally see something from them by the end of the year if the Rumors turn out to be true...with BB record its really doubtful that we'll see anything from them....Also see Matrox for rumors....
3Dfx: Like Elvis they are still dead but think they are the King
Any comments feel free to post them!
Scott
Nvidia: Geforce 3Ti series....nothing but a warmed over verison of the Geforce3 series. No new features execpt a higher price tag and memory Speed. Good news is that it doesn't look like a next generation Product will come from them till next fall, Finally breaking their 6 month product refresh cycle. 2d Quatily Problems might still be there..though I have no first hand knowelege of this.
ATI: Radeon 7500/8500 are released to much fan fair. Websites where finally prasing a product that could Finally beat Nvidia at their own game. After the hands-on reviews, they are very disapointed to find out that nothing has really changed at ATI...the Drivers still suck and to top it off ATI has been Opitimizing/Cheating at the bench marks for Quake3. The OEM/Retail Clock Speeds are another thorn in ATI side for the lack of info and confustion that a comment that was made a month ago stating that the OEM/Retail Clocks would be the same.
Matrox: Well still nothing new here. G550 has been a major dissapointment with the OEM (Matrox's supposed main clients) with no OEM wins. Still using techongly at based of a product that is 18 months old. Many rumors of Next Generation card coming "soon". Also a rumor that the card will be based or have tech licenced from Bitboyzs. For more depressing info see here:
Link .
STmicro: Makers of the Kyro I/II series of cards. No news since the Kryo2 has come out. Rumors of a higher clocked card have so far turned out to be just rumors. The kryo III is supposed to be a higher clocked card with T&L and a programable Pixel Shader built into it. Make next year we will see it.
BitBoyz: Lots of rumors circulating on this front. we might accucally see something from them by the end of the year if the Rumors turn out to be true...with BB record its really doubtful that we'll see anything from them....Also see Matrox for rumors....
3Dfx: Like Elvis they are still dead but think they are the King
Any comments feel free to post them!
Scott
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