Video Card Shootout (10/9/00)

[otheipi]

Check it out:

Sharkyextreme.com Video Card Shootout

 

[Ben88]

The fact that the top three cards were all geforce 2 based is crapola in my opinion. The radeon is at least one of the three best cards on teh market right now.

 

[han888]

the site is very lag, i can not see all the test! why the sharkextreme dont use the 64 meg geforce and 64 meg radeon to run test! seem it's not fair for radeon and geforce2 to against the 64 meg voodoo5

 

[Dark4ng3l]

The 64 meg voodoo 5 is a 32 meg card(it uses 32 meg per chip and duplicates all data)

 

[otheipi]

If you read it carefully, you'll see that the author of the article addresses this concern!

 

[fodd3r]

that article sucked. it was an excuse to get more hits one their site by having ppl read the guides on each respective card. plus the fact his benchmarking sucked. he places all the emphasis on ogl, considering there aren't that many games using it. dx still hold the majority. did anyone see him mention really really really bad 2d image quality on the desktop?

sharky's reviews generally suck big time!

 

[Dark4ng3l]

The problem with the article is he's benchmarking 4 or 5 GeForce2 cards who perform the same. What's the point?

 

[BFG10K]

I thought the article was very good, although I did dislike the way the the graphs popped up into a new window.

This article should please all of those guys that complain that all we ever see is Quake 3 benchmarks and that you can't judge a card based on this. This review covers other things as well.

mainly because 3dfx forgot to include any video acceleration features into the Voodoo5. Whoops, maybe next time, guys.

Whoops! Maybe next they will remember T&L as well.

 

[nippyjun]

The article was totally lame. Should have been called the geforece2gts roundup. The guy even says that fsaa is useless except for older directx 6 games. WTF is he talking about. Sharkey, hire some new reviewers that aren't in the take with one particular video company.

 

[oldfart]

I thought the article was very good, although I did dislike the way the graphs popped up into a new window.

This article should please all of those guys that complain that all we ever see is Quake 3 benchmarks and that you can't judge a card based on this. This review covers other things as well.

mainly because 3dfx forgot to include any video acceleration features into the Voodoo5. Whoops, maybe next time, guys.

Whoops! Maybe next they will remember T&L as well.

Gee, BFG. Big surprise you liked it so much. A true Nvidiots delight.

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[nippyjun]

Why do people support Nvidia so much. They created nothing. They are true innovators of nothing. They were notorious for overhyping specifications of their products, but I guess most of you don't remember so far back (about a year ago).

 

[BFG10K]

Gee, BFG. Big surprise you liked it so much. A true Nvidiots delight.

Sure Sharky may be a bit biased toward nVidia but you can't say they had something in that review that hasn't been said anywhere else.

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Which of those two quotes do you think is better, mine or the standard quoting system?

I can't stand the way this forum does quotes. The italics are a real bad idea because large quotes are very hard to read.

 

[oldfart]

Hmm, now that I look at it, it may not be the quote style that is so annoying.

 

[RoboTECH]

Lordie, what a piece of $hit that article was.

Yeah, let's dig up a frickin' archaic game that nobody plays (Revolt), just so we can be forced to use a previous driver revision.

hahaha...god forbid we use a recent game that people actually play, and god forbid we actually compare the cards on equal ground, what a joke!!!

Oh yeah, Sharky was using a PCI 5500. What a laugh.

I wonder how much he gets paid?

 

[rickn]

Which is exactly why I dont base any of my purchasing decisions on what SE publishes

 

[SuperGroove]

holy dear God...I think shootouts involving 8 cards, with exact chips, but different brands, is a bunch of crap. Most people who buy these cards on their own, sooner or later use the latest and greatest from Nvidia. It's just stupid to review that many, IMO when they're all reference boards, save one. It should've just been any, except for that damned $270 Asus board, Nvidia board, an ATI Radeon, and V5 5500. The review also fails to neglect compatibility issues with GeForces and AMD 751/756 boards. ARGH!

Poop,
Paul

 

[RoboTECH]

Sharky's site has to be one of the most horrid sites out there.

7 words/page, 47 pages/article, articles with 329 words worth of pure nothing.

 

[The Wildcard]

Ahh man i didn't know so many people hated Sharkyextreme? I always thought they were pretty reliable. I also love the name, lol.

 

[BFG10K]

Oh yeah, Sharky was using a PCI 5500. What a laugh.

Well it is inaccurate to do this but really, what difference does it make? Anandtech's benchmarks between the AGP and PCI versions yielded virtually no performance difference.

 

[MustangSVT]

That review did suck. Didnt show nothing new and what's the point of all those geforce2? and web design is just horrible, you have to click on page by page ( i read like 20 pages and it was all crap so i gave up) they should at least have some Table or list so we can goto conclusion!