Geforce256 vs Geforce 2

[McMullet]

I have an older Geforce256 DDR. Wondering how this card stacks up against the newer Geforce2 cards, IS there that much of a performance boost?

 

[AndyHui]

Read from here onwards. There should be enough benchmarks in Anand's article to give you a good idea.

 

[McMullet]

WOW! thanks a million, I don't think my old ANNIALATOR PRO is toast yet, hehe!

 

[Athlon4all]

Yah, I was making the same comarision a while ago and yeah, Gf256 DDR is almost equal to Gf2GTS

 

[tigerbait]

What about 2D?

 

[AndyHui]

There hasn't been much change in 2D performance for the nVidia line of cards since the TNT. Most of the GeForce family has a history of being marred by poor 2D output: blurriness.

Supposedly this has been fixed with GeForce 3 cards as card manufacturers have been using higher quality filters.

 

[Helznicht]

Your good for a while, GF1 DDR was a SOLID card.

 

[LuciferHaze]

The GeForce2 GTS significantly outperforms the original GeForce256. The GeForce256 could do 480 Megapixels and 480 Megatexels per second whilst the GeForce2 GTS can do 800 Megapixels and 1.6 Gigatexels per second.

 

[UCBPride]

dont forget better visual quality

 

[Helznicht]

"The GeForce2 GTS significantly outperforms the original GeForce256"

Only @ 1024 res and above.

@ 800x600 : 112fps vs 115fps

So if you want to game higher than 800x600, get the upgrade.

 

[dhslammer]

GeForce DDR is faster than GeForce2 MX

 

[Whitedog]

Yea, I was also going to comment about High Res. Old GeForceDDR cards are just as good as GF2 cards if you're running stuff @800 or lower Res.

GF2 only starts showing it's muscle at higher resolutions...

The reason is, at lower resolutions, the CPU is the bottle neck thus you're not seeing an increase with a faster card. At higher Resolutions the video cards start to reach their limits faster and that's when you see the difference.

I only play games at 1024 or higher, which made it an easy decision to get the GF2 DDR.