Is Nvidia making the same mistake as 3dfx?

Mutant_Lead · Post by **Mutant_Lead** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:24 am

If you "old as I am" gamers remember, it seemed that 3dfx was resting on their laurels when Nvidia overtook them. 3dfx was the king baby, the coolest games had 3dfx support, and things were good. Then it seems that Nvida creeped in, being more responsive to users, adding more features, ect. Then there was a hot debate on which was better 3dfx or nvidia, graphics or speed. Then, bang, one day 3dfx is no more and Nvidia is the king.
Today, the hot debate is ATI vs Nvida. It seems that maybe Nvidia was sleeping or did not think that ATI was a contender. Nvidia has better dx8 scores? Ati better dx9? Speed vs Graphics again? Will nvidia go the way of 3dfx? Thanks to Nexus's poll, it seems that fully 45% of pcabusers are using ATI. Hmmm....

DoPeY5007 · Post by **DoPeY5007** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:44 am

I think right now, nVidia vs. ATI is the same as Intel vs. AMD. Just a personally pref

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 6:18 pm

except nvidia and ati sell just as many cards, not like intel selling 50% more then amd.

Greg

MAC · Post by **MAC** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:45 pm

Its them dang 3dfx engineers that nVidia hired. Ever since they were hired on, nVidia has been going down.

MAC

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 3:20 pm

I personally feel the fx 5700, fx 5900 and fx 5950 are not bar cards. the radeon has superior AA and visual quality but nvidia seems to be working on drivers again not just cheating which is nice.

Greg