Problem with Ben’s post…
I don’t think one can compare a semi-DirectX 9 class GPU to a DirectX 8.x class GPU and claim victory.
One has to understand that both ATI (i.e. ~R300) and nVidia has their own direct-X 9 class GPUs in the works.
Ben has made the same flawed comparisons for “X86 vs PPC” comparisons by including Motorola’s next generation product (i.e G5). The x86 industry has it’s own next generation product in the pipe line i.e. AMD’s K8 points to this progression.
Ben is just looking from a single perceptive.
Relative to its competitors, I’m pretty skeptical about Motorola’s record of delivering the next generation product in the timely fashion, e.g. 68040 clock speed limit and lateness of G4’s 1 Ghz race.
(I’m aware of IPC + faster clock speed = faster CPU product)...
