Stay away from nVidia! (rant)

Arclight · 11-25-09, 11:43 AM

It has something to do with architecture as well. When they overhauled it, getting rid of pipelines and switching to the Streaming Processors / Unified Shaders you have today, it was driver hell. Going from G92 (8800GT&GTS 512, 9000 series) to GT200 cores likewise caused issues because of an overhaul (I honestly wouldn't recommend a GTX2xx card to anyone).

I'm guessing the launch of Fermi is going to be mayhem as well, though it seems to me like the GTX series is a testbed for their upcoming releases, or perhaps merely something to bridge the gap between the 9000 series and Fermi.

11-25-09, 11:43 AM	#6
Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	It has something to do with architecture as well. When they overhauled it, getting rid of pipelines and switching to the Streaming Processors / Unified Shaders you have today, it was driver hell. Going from G92 (8800GT&GTS 512, 9000 series) to GT200 cores likewise caused issues because of an overhaul (I honestly wouldn't recommend a GTX2xx card to anyone). I'm guessing the launch of Fermi is going to be mayhem as well, though it seems to me like the GTX series is a testbed for their upcoming releases, or perhaps merely something to bridge the gap between the 9000 series and Fermi. __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.