got the 1.76 drivers today and they are even faster). Plus he is yet to post
the tests with the new 200MHz TNT 2 Ultra he had just got. Plus you can't
overclock a TNT 2 unless you push it past what the card manufacturer is willing
to warranty it for.The new Diamond V770U is warrantied up to 200MHz so unless
you go above that your not overclocking it.
What STB/3dfx are hoping is that people will buy the Voodoo 3 on the basis of a
few extra FPS with current games as the expense of future game performance
where the TNT 2 will have equal or greater FPS but better looking graphics and
advanced features support that Voodoo 3 simply doesn't have.
For example, look at the following link. It has interesting information about
the testing of Quake 3.
http://www.racesimcentral.net/#146
Also preliminary tests on the new 1.76 drivers show a 30 to 40% increase in
performance for AMD users over the 1.73 drivers. Can't wait to see a comparison
of Voodoo 3 vs TNT 2 Ultra on some AMD CPU's.
> [snip]
> >All of the bechmarks posted this week (since the release of the 1.73 TNT
> drivers) show
> >the performance gap to be very little. In fact the TNT 2 runs many of the
> benchmarks I have
> >run at 32 bits within a few FPS of the Voodoo 3000 at 16 bit.
> All? Here's one that shows the V3 outperforming an _overclocked_ TNT2Ultra
> http://www.racesimcentral.net/