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."

RETURN TO CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN 800x600 143 142 1024x768 122 126 1280x1024 105 109 NVIDIA GEFORCE3 SAPPHIRE RADEON 9000 PRO

COMMENT - "Return to Castle Wolfenstein is more CPU demanding than Quake 3 and appears to favour the Sapphire Radeon 9000 Pro which proved that it's too strong for the Nvidia GeForce3 beating it by 4%."

SERIOUS SAM SECOND EDITION 800x600 131 122 1024x768 124 116 1280x1024 116 110 NVIDIA GEFORCE3 SAPPHIRE RADEON 9000 PRO

COMMENT - "Serious Sam - Second Edition is a fairly close result with the Nvidia GeForce3 outperforming the Sapphire Radeon 9000 Pro by 6%."

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003 800x600 107 86 1024x768 78 57 1280x1024 55 37 NVIDIA GEFORCE3 SAPPHIRE RADEON 9000 PRO

COMMENT - "When playing Unreal Tournament 2003 there is only one video card for this game and that is the Nvidia GeForce3 . The Sapphire Radeon 9000 Pro is outperformed at all resolutions and at the highest resolution it loses by 33%."