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Trident XP4 Reviewed

Posted by michael on from the only-mostly-dead dept.

ceebABC writes "In a new review, the Trident XP4 got a nasty reception. Based on the tests, it sounds like Trident has got some work to do on the thing. Looks like this GPU is dead on arrival." Our last story on Trident mentioned them coming back from the dead. Maybe not.

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  1. Meanwhile, back in Denmark... by Cap'n+Canuck · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Ouch! That review was particularly brutal!

    It makes me wonder why an AnandTech article gave such a different opinion. Which one is right?

    From page two...
    Basically we're at a "wait and see" point with Trident but there is the potential for the XP4 to deliver on all of their claims
  2. Losing sight of the target by TinyManCan · · Score: 5, Insightful
    You gotta love reviews like this. First he takes a product that is meant to go into *budget* *low-end* machines, and compares it to the upper echelon of *no cost spared* performance.

    Then he proceeds to run this card at 1600x1200 with beta drivers against cards with excellent debugged drivers. Any sort of numerical or empirical evidence he could get at this point is about .05% useful to me.

    Sure the thing may only get 4.9 FPS on a new demanding game at 1600x1200 with beta drivers. I bet you that same card will belt out over 60fps at 1024x768 when the real drivers are released.

    People seem to forget that a video card driver's quality can be the difference between horrible performance and class leading performance. If the driver is not debugged and performance optimzed, there is nothing a hardware designer could do to make that card perform well.

    I say that this is an excellent card that will allow users who do not want to spend $500 on a video card to play the latest and greatest games on the market. It is a Dx9 card, with full support. To me, this is an excellent card.

    I bet they sell a whole boatload of these things to OEM manufacturers and those who do not really want to spend an entire car payment on moving some pixels around. -TinyManCan