Geforce2 pro vs KyroII

[Desslok]

ANyone now of any reviews that pit these cards against each other? I am think the Geforce would "age" better than the Kyro. Any opinions on that? And does anyone know where to get a 5NS version of the pro?

Thanks,
Chris

 

[Archknight]

At OCIE.com - the Inno3d GF2 pro is rate 5ns. Link

The Inno3d Kyro2 is about $30 cheaper than the GF2 pro with a little lower performance but a better visual quality especially in 16bits.

Edit: Look at this Link.

I think the GF2pro and Kyro2 will age about the same, one would last much longer than the other. By one year later you might want a new video card anyway, both will most likely last you for that long.

 

[ThExorcist]

"ANyone now of any reviews that pit these cards against each other? I am think the Geforce would "age" better than the kyro. Any opinions on that? And does anyone know where to get a 5NS version of the pro?"

AH HAAA!!!

I knew i would find it!!!!

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1291.1/

Look at those Mercedes benchmarks... Looks like the drivers have fixed the problems that were shown on anandtechs review and increased the performance beyond geforce ultra.... DAMMMMMMMMMnnnnnnn
Also notice the possibility of the card being cpu limited not fillrate limited at the lower resolutions. (800x600 and below). Even in 16bit the kyro is dominating.
What you need to keep in mind is that the Kyro 2 is newer then the Geforce2 pro and has alot more performance that can be pulled out of it. Ge2pro has already had extensive driver releases which have pulled alot of performance out of it from its initial release.

If you are a kyro owner I would be very excited because the drivers can only get better not worse...

Also in this review he says something about cpu scaling that is very interesting...

"We wanted to determine what kind of CPU horsepower was necessary to drive the Kyro II, and as the graphs both illustrate, the Kyro II scales well at low to moderate clockspeeds. It does, however, begin to taper off after about 1000 MHz, while the GeForce 2 line continues to scale well beyond that point.

What does that mean to you? Simply this -- if you're planning on purchasing a new CPU in excess of 1.2 GHz, you'll probably see much less of a performance delta between the two cards than we did in our testing. That is, beyond 1 GHz, the GeForce 2 will steadily increase in performance, while the Kyro II will begin to flatten out.

For a Duron or Pentium 3-equipped budget gaming system, for example, you can expect results similar to what we observed here. If you were to pair both cards with a 1.4 GHz Athlon, however, we suspect the GeForce 2 (especially the Pro) would begin to look much more attractive."

From what you all have been saying this should be the other way around with the Kyro doing better as the cpu gets more powerful.

Seems to be excellent card. Unless you do alot of professional work.