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Hardware > The nVIDIA TNT2 > TNT2 Review - Toms Hardware

TNT2 Review - Toms Hardware

The TNT2

Tom's Review of the TNT2 couldn't be more positive towards the card. In short I think he's fallen in love with it!

Some Quotes:

"I was testing 3 different versions of TNT2-boards. A 16 MB board with a TNT2 running at 125 MHz chip clock and 150 MHz memory clock, a 32 MB board with TNT2 running at 150 MHz chip clock and 183 MHz memory clock and finally a special Diamond 32 MB board with TNT2 running at 175 MHz chip clock and no less than 200 MHz memory clock."

"Brett 'Three Fingers' Jacobs' Crusher Demo is my favorite Quake2 benchmark, because it puts the Quake2-performance of a 3D-card into a worst case scenario.....It is amazing to see that TNT2 is pretty much CPU limited in Crusher up to a resolution of 1024x768. This means that in those resolutions TNT2 will score even higher with a faster CPU. 1152x864 is where finally the 3D-chip limitation kicks in, but look at those numbers! TNT2 scores almost 46 fps at 1152x864!"

"This chart shows pretty obvious who's the real king in Quake2 now. You can easily see that TNT2 is always faster than Voodoo3. What you cannot see on this chart though is that even TNT2 125/150 is scoring almost as well as Voodoo3 3500, and that's maybe the most remarkable thing."

"Now the disaster has happened to 3Dfx. NVIDIA has indeed produced a chip that's superior to their new and not even yet released Voodoo3 and Creative, Diamond and the likes can't wait to screw up the sales of Voodoo3. NVIDIA is in a lucky situation, almost everybody in the business is on their side against 3Dfx. I wonder what is going to happen to poor and soon 'bullied' 3Dfx in the next few months."


Author:
[EvEm]_Xtro
Created:
March 13, 1999
Modified:
March 13, 1999 - 07:45:05


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