GeForce Titan GPU with GK110 Core Thread

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Captain_Tom said:
ATI was kinda a joke until AMD bought them.

^ Wait, what?

1. 9700Pro/9800Pro destroyed GeForce 5 series. GeForce 5 was the worst series ever made by NV in its history. It had non-existent DX9 performance (HL2 *cough*) and atrocious tri-linear filtering / anisotropic filtering optimizations. 9500Pro also unlocked into a 9700.

2. X800XT/X850XT once again beat 6800U in most GPU demanding titles. NV's only trump card that generation were OpenGL titles/flight sims and the sweet spot offered by 6800GT. However, X800XL offered awesome price/peformrance, while X800GTO2 unlocked into an X800XT!

3. X1800XT wasn't great but X1950XT series destroyed GeForce 7 in shader intensive games. One of the reasons 8800GTX looked so amazing is that by the time it launched, GeForce 7900GTX was completely failing in DX9 shader intensive games.

If you looked at overall raw performance in those generations:

9700Pro > FX5800U
9800XT > FX5950U
X850XT PE > 6800U/UE
X1950XTX > 7900GTX

NV wasn't even on the map back then. It's only after AMD bought ATI and NV made a big push into Tesla/Quadro markets with their "Big Die strategy" that they became the indisputable class leader in GPU performance. Until then ATI was beating them nearly every generation since R300. Oh, and in terms of 2D image quality, NV didn't get on the same level until Fermi generation. Everything before GeForce 8 had piss-poor 2D IQ on NV. Same story with anti-aliasing. NV's AA quality sucked so bad until GeForce 8 that you had to use 4xMSAA to match AMD's 2xMSAA.