NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

by Anand Lal Shimpi on December 25, 1999 7:23 PM EST

The 1600 x 1200 scores you see above won't change all that much as we cycle through the various processors. The DDR GeForce finally separates itself from the Rage Fury MAXX but not by a huge amount.

The Savage 2000 finally moves up the ladder as a result of its efficient memory management, with some driver tweaks for D3D performance it wouldn't be surprising to see the Savage 2000 perform even better. Keep an eye on this card, if S3 can get their act together with their next driver update (due out in January), the Savage 2000 may end up being the "low-cost" (compared to the GeForce and other cards in its class) high performing card that we were promised on paper a few months ago.

The native Glide support can only do so much for the Voodoo3 cards, at 1600 x 1200 the cards begin to show their limits as they fall down below the average performing TNT2 Ultra.

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  • YsGrandi - Tuesday, August 11, 2020 - link

    its 2020 and intel still stuck with skylake
  • pavag - Sunday, July 3, 2016 - link

    So, Anand was ranting about a top GPU from nvidia costing only 300$
  • artk2219 - Thursday, April 13, 2017 - link

    Hey man, thats like $432.87 as of January 2017 or pretty much the same, $428.93 in your time of July 2016 time traveler. Either way, Vega needs to put the smack down on Nvidias pricing, and you can stick that in your bucket young whipper snappers of the future. :D
  • artk2219 - Sunday, November 18, 2018 - link

    Sadly Vega didn't do anything, here's looking at you Navi. Nvidia needs a smack down on their pricing more than ever.
  • Doogiehowser99 - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link

    Everyone would kill for Pascal pricing in 2021. What would 2000 Anandtech say about Nvidia flagship GPUs going for $2000. That's way above inflation. Lol
  • CHADD44 - Tuesday, February 15, 2022 - link

    2022 and this still dominates gpu market

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