NVIDIA GEFORCE3 VS SAPPHIRE 9000 PRO

"The NVIDIA ™ family of graphics processing units (GPUs) shakes up the gaming industry with unprecedented visual effects and sizzling frame rates—injecting life into the previously artificial world of computer-generated graphics. Powered by the new NVIDIA nfiniteFX™ Engine and Lightspeed Memory Architecture, the Ti 500, Ti 200, and original GPUs enable users to experience a rich environment instead of just looking at it on a computer screen."

"The nfiniteFX Engine - With the nfiniteFX engine's programmability, games and other graphics-intensive applications can offer more exciting and stylized visual effects. Vertex and Pixel Shaders are two patented architectural advancements that allow for a multitude of effects."

"3D Textures - A new teachnology that is part of the nfiniteFX Engine, 3D textures make hollow objects solid with true three-dimensional material properties such as wood grain or marbling."

"Shadow Buffers - Another new feature of the Titanium series, shadow buffers create realistic shadow effects in real time. Enables self-shadowing for characters and objects, and softens the edges of shadows for realistic effects, adding depth to scenes and highlighting spatial relationships between objects."

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COMMENT - "The Nvidia GeForce3 starts off strongly beating the Sapphire Radeon 9000 Pro by 4%."

QUAKE 3 ARENA 800x600 174 174 1024x768 161 155 1280x1024 145 134 NVIDIA GEFORCE3 SAPPHIRE RADEON 9000 PRO

COMMENT - "The Nvidia GeForce3 and Sapphire Radeon 9000 Pro offer roughly the same performance at the lower resolutions however when you reach 1280x1024 the Nvidia GeForce3 pulls ahead by 8%."

QUAKE 3 ARENA 2xFSAA 640x480 173 160 800x600 149 118 1024x768 98 75 NVIDIA GEFORCE3 SAPPHIRE RADEON 9000 PRO

COMMENT - "We have now enabled advanced options to get rid of the jagged edges and the Nvidia GeForce3 is clearly superior to the Sapphire Radeon 9000 Pro by offering 24% better performance."

QUAKE 3 ARENA 4xFSAA 640x480 157 102 800x600 116 67 1024x768 68 44 NVIDIA GEFORCE3 SAPPHIRE RADEON 9000 PRO

COMMENT - "We are now using an even more demanding advanced option and the Nvidia GeForce3 stretched it's lead over the Sapphire Radeon 9000 Pro to 36%."