3dfx Interview

Most of you guys made up your minds a long time ago.

I've owned products from both companies and my experience with 3dfx has always been superior.

My current V3-3000 kicks ass although alot of you guys act like my eyes should bleed because it doesn't do 32-bit color. BFD, my old piece-of-shit TNT card did 32-bit color(like a slideshow) and still sucked ass and wouldn't work right with half the games unless I changed the drivers and then the other half would become unplayable.

My V3 is fast in every game and looks good doing it. The latest drivers are the shit and work awesome with everything, Q3 especially.

This interview pointed out some very basic lies that Nvidia is guilty of. The SDR GeForce is theoretically capable of the same fillrate as the DDR, which we know is bullshit in real world performance.

Nvidia claims monster fillrate for the GTS and yet it is only a minor improvement at best in benchmarks in Q3, not the triple-the-bandwidth claim of Nvidia.

I ain't buying Nvidia's lies ever again.

Actually I'm pretty dissapointed in 3dfx coming out with this BS. If you want to win the graphics debate post the best numbers, period. The GF2 beats the V5500 at the moment in most benchmarks. The V5500 beats the GF2 in most FSAA benchmarks. If I was 3dfx I'd concentrate on that. FSAA compatability?, well I suspect that issue will quickly go away, maybe 3dfx will get FSAA working with Glide , hmm?

The V5500 can (IMHO) and should be able to stand on its own without the need to descend into slanging matches, and if 3dfx feel that it can't well that tells you all you need to know about the confidence they have in theiur product.

27, word to that! I'd be willing to buy a v5 6000 for $399 easily. That's only $50 more than a GeForce 2, and you'd better believe that added memory bandwidth will make games scream like they were being raped by Big Bubba!..err, .. yeah...

But for $550-600.. nooo waayy..

43: I've gotten a 214fps timedemo in Quake III before. Of course I had everything off and at low rez... on a dual 550 with a GeForce DDR...


Something else everybody arguing about these companies needs to realize... The PR and R&D parts of these companies are separate. The Engineers working for nVidia are not the ones hyping the products, same with 3dfx. It's not like these companies are single entities.

I don't care which company is "mean" to the other one. nVidia consistently puts out better products. I have not and still do not trust 3dfx's products though. And I've bought 4 voodoo2s, so it's not like they never got any of my money. V2 was just the last card of theirs I wanted. Despite memory limitations for real-world performance, I think it's kinda funny that a single GF2 chip has more texel fillrate than a whole V5-6k. (1.6Gtex vs 1.33Gtex... Yeah the GF2 needs like 3x the bandwidth... I know...)

Did you guys forget the Glaze3D? OMG! Come on people. These cards are crap. heh

I got a DDR. When the v5 6000 hits the shevles I'll upgrade unless ATI or nVidia pull a rabit out of their collective asses. I doubt it will happen so next up is a 6000.

3dfx's Rampage should be as fast as a Geforce GTS. Can you imagine 4x GTS with the memory bandwidth to support it? Oh ya! X-mas is gonna fook'n rock. Time to morage the SO.

Wow this little comment should be upgraded...

Then the GF DDR isn't worth the cash either, if you're looking at a comparison between a DDR and SDR... DDR's cost about $100 but don't give you anywhere near 30+% in performance/feature gains, about what you'd be paying for in price. SDR's are probably the best price/performance value out right now... You can get them for $130 or less used, and you're looking at a 10-15 fps difference from the top of the line...

We need bandwidth!

"I remember when they announced the TNT and it was supposed to be 125MHz: it was 90. The TNT2-ultra was supposed to be 175/200MHz, it was 150/183. There were supposed to be 30 T&L titles by last Christmas and there was one. They are trying to fool the consumer into positioning GF2 as this killer shader product, but the reality is that it has no new texture/color combine features as compared to the original GeForce! The GeForce2 GTS is supposed to have 3X the performance of the GeForce and it doesn't come close."

Ouch, but it doesn't change the fact that nVidia > 3dfx. :) Sorry 3dfx, nice try though.

Personally think the GF2 is ahead of it's time and the limiting factor is bandwidth to the bus. Let's wait for the AGP 4x spec to be out for a half year and then see how it's taken advantage of...

Also Let's get some other benchmarks out there besides Q3... I'm getting sick of that shit... The game is already starting to get tres moldy...

Shack just slowed waaaaay down for me.

Anyone else having the same problem?

175/200MHz I believe was the Ultra spec for the Hurcules.

I gotta hand it to ya, Vag! Way to go man!! Wooooo0000o0oo0o0o0o0o0oo0o0!!!

As for the interview.. hearing 3Dfx bite back is a refreshing change. I got some "Allright, we've had enough of this Nvidia bullsh*t!!" vibes running all through it.

Sigh, I want a v5-6000

Unlike most boooring interviews by ANY company these days, this interview was actually exciting enough to keep me on the edge of my seat through the whole thing! =P Awesome interview...
-> FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! ;)

- Val

MAN!, That guy talks alot of shit I can tell you that!

First Post!!!!!!!!!