More details on IBM’s proposed PPC 970

[Hammer]

Offcourse the new ATI card kicks everybodies a$$, so for 3D gaming, take your pick.

For 3D Application performance, NV25 (Quadro 4 900XGL) still beats* R300 (Radon 9700).
Refer to http://www.xbitlabs.com/video/3dsmax5/

It’s interesting to note that the same NV25 chips (i.e. GF4 vs Q4GL) have different out comes due to minor driver and clock speed differences.

[Elektro]

Hype? Star Wars episode 2 was hyped to death. Parhelia was merely "publically mentioned" in comparison

Well no wonder it simply didn't perform good.

[Fot]

For 3D Application performance, NV25 (Quadro 4 900XGL) still beats* R300 (Radon 9700).

That's no surprise when running OpenGL software. The review was comparing how cards optimized for DirectX stack up against the OpenGL optimized Quadro 4 running OpenGL apps. ATi's equivalent to the Quadro 4 is the FireGL X1 and not the 9700.

However, the fact still remains that the R300 is one superfast DirectX 9 card with decent OpenGL performance. Until the NV30 is released, ATi's 9700 is the DirectX king.

But who cares about DirectX anyway... :-D

[Hammer]

That's no surprise when running OpenGL software. The review was comparing how cards optimized for DirectX stack up against the OpenGL optimized Quadro 4 running OpenGL apps.

Regardless of the other side issues involve, the fastest "solution" for a given area is the most important for the end user.

[Hammer]

Nah, i't just a tad slower the a GeForce4/4400

Nah, i't just a tad slower the a GeForce4 TI 4200.  ;-)

Refer to http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1645&p=7