NF3 250gb + GeForce FX = Enhanced Performance

Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
edited April 2004 in Science & Tech
According to The TechReport Nvidia claims to have optimized the NF3 250 chipset to offer greater performance with a GeForce FX Video card. Techreport compares the performance of a GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and a Radeon 9800 XT against each other by running both cards in a K8T800 chipset based motherboard and a NF3-250gb reference motherboard.
WHEN NVIDIA briefed me on the nForce3 250Gb, the company claimed the chipset would perform better with GeForce FX graphics. The insinuation was not that the GeForce FX was necessarily faster than its graphics competition, but that NVIDIA had specifically optimized nForce3 and GeForce FX ForceWare drivers to work better together than apart. NVIDIA was quick to reassure me that they hadn't done anything to make competing graphics cards run slower on nForce3. They'd simply taken advantage of an opportunity to make their graphics cards run faster.
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Clearly, NVIDIA isn't worried about these optimizations being labeled cheats, but do they actually work? Let's find out.
Their results are definately interesting!

Source: TechReport

Comments

  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    My question is if they optimized it for the GeForce, or if they hurt it's performance with the Radeon.

    Yeah yeah, they said they didn't, but still.
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited April 2004
    look at the results, the radeon performs exactly the same on both chipsets. however on the 250 the nvidia card kicks some serious extra ass
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Pretty impressive gains in some of the tests. Can't blame me for being cynical though. We've been jerked around by ATI and nVidia so many times already...
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited April 2004
    oh so true, but via as well?
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    If this is true, it may actually be worth buying an nVidia card again some time in the future...
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    I'm in it for the qaulity, not the speed. I preferr my games to look good at 100FPS, not ****ty at 200FPS.

    But that's just me... I'd be much more impressed if it gave the GFFX a slight boost and better quality.
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    I'm willing to wager that the quality of the next generation nVidia will be at least equal to ATI, due to the higher precision GPU and later-generation pixel shader employed by the nVidia card.
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited April 2004
    it looks like, based on a few reviews, that nvidia has substantially improved the image quality through some better drivers. and keep in mind that on top of this gfx performance boost, the 250gb is essentially the most featurerich socket 754 platform out right now. seems like a great combo to me
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Nvidia and Intel fall into cyclical overconfident stages and blunder now and then. They then wake up to market gains by the competition, put some performance behind the hype, and produce a series of excellent products. This latter stage in the cycle is perhaps where Nvidia is heading now. Hope so; it'll only make ATI fight harder!
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Has ATI announced any chipset plans for Athlon64s? There never was much fanfare behind their AthlonXP offerings.
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