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7 Years of Graphics
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Posted by: TotalRecall
accelenation has updated their history of graphics article. Here's a snip:
Clock-for-clock the new R300 core appeared to be around 20% faster than the NV25 core from NVIDIA (GeForce Ti range). However this was determined at a resolution of 1600x1200x32 which may simply be insufficient to test these modern cards. Turning on antialiasing or anisotropic filtering sent the comparative performance of the R300 into orbit, outstripping the NV25 by more than 100% — that’s over twice as fast!
The new 9700 PRO was a full DirectX9 compatible product running on an AGP8X bus and included sophisticated HYPER Z III pixel culling technology, which unfortunately the Parhelia from Matrox lacked. To get a 110 million 0.15µm transistors running stable at 325MHz was simply a stupendous achievement. At ECTS in August the depression emanating from NVIDIA was palpable. Luckily for them, ATi failed to deliver high volumes of the new product until the end of the year, generously allowing the GeForce4 its time in the sun.
More on the releases of the year here.
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