120+ GeForce FX Reviews Collected

Peter writes "We just finished at 8Dimensional our list of GeForce FX reviews. It tries to show all reviews of these video cards currently online, 120+ are listed at the moment." Hmmm, time to upgrade from an Xpert@Play98 ...

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To bad they will all have to be redone

[Megor1]

3dmark released a patch today that avoids nvidias cheating in their benchmark, so all the reviews that used 3dmark need to rerun their tests.

Re:To bad they will all have to be redone

[Goalie_Ca]

It's true a lot of reviewers have relied on futuremarks benchmark. For me and others it means nothing because its "too" synthetic and uncharacteristic of current games. But for others this means everything but then again, they've probably already know that. It's not everyday your "favorite" gpu drops 24% :P

It's worth to note that ATI also "cheated" but they still correctly rendered the scene. All they had done was re-order the shader instructions so they were optimized for their architecture. It only boost their performance by 3% IIRC.

Re:To bad they will all have to be redone

[Performer Guy]

ATI did not cheat (although they have cheated in the past), they reordered the instructions in a shader but it remained mathematically and functionally identical. This is what optimizing compilers do all the time. It's called optimization, not cheating, and it is legitimate, they looked at the shader INSTRUCTIONS to see if they were suitable for this optimization. It made about a 2% difference, and IMHO ATI should leave this optimization in and broaden the scope if possible.

If it was a really narrow path optimization then it's borderline, but far different from the wholesale cheating of NVIDIA who: rewrote shaders with completely different results, didn't clear the screen at certain points and added hidden clip planes to eliminate pixel fill. All very underhanded and why you would make excuses for this I don't know. Sure it's a synthetic benchmark, but if it don't matter then don't cheat.

And they all prove...

[da3dAlus]

That the GeForce FX sounds like a leaf blower...

You know, slashdot itself would be more useful

[The Terrorists]

to us if it contained such review compendia in itself, rather than making me go to 100 different sites to see them. It'd also be a way to counter the various technology zealotries that arise here. I'm willing to see these ads if the value of this site goes up commensurately.

is it really an upgrade?

[User 956]

Hmmm, time to upgrade from an Xpert@Play98

Hmmm.. I don't know if a GeforceFX is actually an *upgrade* from the Xpert@play98. What benchmark are you using?

Re:is it really an upgrade?

[Evil-G]

What benchmark are you using?

The "decibels produced by the video card" benchmark.

uhhh

[Tweakmeister]

"We just finished at 8Dimensional our list of GeForce FX reviews." ...and? now what?

While the idea of a site that shows all the reviews in one place is noble...unless you have huge amounts on content it's easier to search google for the reviews. The good ones usually end up being on top as well.

time?

[buddha42]

Hmmm, time to upgrade from an Xpert@Play98 ...

Nope. The most stressful video application most users do is DVD playback, and even that is loooooong past the point where hardware-assistance is needed.

The video card market has gotten absolutly rediculous in the last 2 years. Its strange, when Intel and AMD fight it out, prices plummet. While nVidia and ATI have been fighting it out prices have skyrocketed. Sure, so have features, but they're so random and game or api dependant that most people don't even know how to turn them on in different games or in the drivers advanced settings.

Up until UT2K3 it was completely absurd, because anything with DDR could play any game just fine. Now with the new crop its even worse because modern cards still can't play the very-new and upcoming games well. So buying a high-end card now is overkill for older games, and underpowered for upcoming games.

120 reviews...

[Capt'n Hector]

Are you guys telling me that every single person with a geforce fx wrote an online review?

Xpert@Play98

[tunabomber]

I'm using an Xpert@Play98 and I love it. Yeah, it doesn't support OpenGL very well, but look how fast it can display B's in a /. post:

BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB BB BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB

Wow, that's some card!