Are the Geforce3 MX cards out now anywhere?? [Archive]

Cisco Kid

08-31-01, 06:33 PM

Wondering if the Geforce 3 MX cards are out now. Anyone know if these cards will use DDR or go sdram?? Alos will there be 64 sdram version or a 32 ddr version??

Any links to articles would be cool.

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Nagorak

08-31-01, 09:45 PM

The Geforce 3 "MX" is actually going to be the Geforce 3 Titanium 200. And it's not going to be a value card at all, it's still going to be extremely expensive, at least judging from the fact that Nvidia is releasing a "mainstream" Geforce 2 Titanium card.

So, basically in the low end it's going to be Radeon vs Geforce 2 all over again, just souped up models (Radeon 7500 and Geforce 2 Ti) and in high end it's still going to be Radeon 8500 vs Geforce 3. Finally in ripoffsville (tm Nvidia) we're going to have the the Geforce 3 Ti 500 (and possibly the Radeon 8500 Maxx?).

It's kind of silly how sites are posting this as "Nvidia beats ATi again". In reality nothing about the situation has changed at all. Depending on the price the Radeon 8500 will either match up with the GF3 Ti 200 or the current GF3. But whatever it's price it will certainly destroy the 200 in performance and still equal the GF3.

I wouldn't really be surprised to see the Radeon 8500 priced competitively to the Ti 200, considering ATI's past pricing model. Either way the price of these "next generation" graphics cards should now plummet. So, maybe they'll no longer be "next generation" at all, but finally become the current generation. ;-)

Now if only S3, BitBoys and ST Micro bought some new cards to the market. We'd see the prices drop on graphics cards similar to how they did on CPUs (which is totally overdue, IMO, graphics cards have been growing more and more overpriced recently). Competition is always a good thing.