AnthonyW86 said:
Indeed Titan's architecture wasn't even designed for desktop graphics in the first place, so kudos to Nvidia for getting it done. I think Nvidia is great(except for pushing 3dfx out of the market and buying them). I've actually owned Nvidia cards for years, Geforce 2 MX, Geforce 4 ti4200, 6800 gt, 7900 gt(witch i killed with a Vmod) and a 8800gt. I actually sold the 8800gt just to buy one back a year later because it still ran all the games great. I finally replaced that 8800 gt with a HD5850 when Sapphire build a seris of cards to get rid of the chips when the HD6850 launched and it cost me 100 euro's brand new. Even today you can't get that much performance from a 100 euro card.
Indeed, that rumor came to be because of the APU design and they were expecting it to have a discrete powerfull gpu aside one combined with the cpu. Nobody expecting AMD to be able to fit a 100w gpu in an APU design. Also using one chip is much cheaper then using two. |
That's pretty crazy, your list of graphcs cards and brand hopping to each best one of that gen but maintaining sense in not spending stupid money basically mirrors mine...although I did splash out on a GTX285 :p Good old Geforce 2 MX400...that was a hell of a good card for the money, as was the Ti4200...
Started off on a PowerVR Apocalypse 3dx more than 15 years ago...don't like thinking about that, makes me feel very old :( I know it couldn't match a Voodoo 1 but it came free with a 12 month magazine subscription, didn't even have a proper OpenGL implementation and needed a mini port driver on a game by game basis later on...I remmeber Videologic finally getting off it's arse and doing a Half Life one...ahhh it was gaming bliss...although a bit messy as the PowerVR chip didn't support some of the needed features but...was my first proper taste of bilinear filtering...woohooo lol. (The alleged 3d features of the ViRGE 325 from S3 doesn't really count as running Jedi Knight at 320x240 which was it's limit to use it's 3d never really did it for me)...sorry thanks for letting me remember my life as a young 'un :)










