It's funny when Riva TNT's image quality was considered "superior" a few years ago...

[Biggs]

How about a bit of nostalgia?

 

[GL]

Or how about this from the same article.



<< Summary:
Times are changing in the graphics business. Prices of graphics cards are dropping and this might change a lot in the card makers business. >>



-GL

 

[Biggs]

There was stiff competition during that time. I wonder where is it today?

 

[MGMorden]

I remember them days. I was sitting back with my VooDoo1 drooling over the new cards coming out. Things actually haven't changed too much actually. Still sitting here with a semi-subpar card wanting something better but having to cash . . .

 

[SiliconVandal]

lol the good days. CL 3D Blaster Riva TNT 16MB, then a Hercules....man I thought my graphics were blazin'.

 

[Finality]

Actually the image quality is still very good

One of my friends is still running a TNT1 and he has no complaints (except for speed of course). It was a huge jump from Voodoo/Riva 128 image quality.

I dont think many cards provide such a big jump even today. Most of them do it with FSAA settings. Not on the merits of the card itself.

 

[Yoshi]

I think it was the 3d image quality everyone raved about.

BTW, if you think today's cards are not that much better than the original TNT, you best think again.

 

[MadRat]

I'd rather have a Voodoo3 than a V330!

 

[billandopus]

Hey! I'm still running a TNT1 with 16megs!

Thank God I don't do FPS games otherwise I would have upgraded long ago. Having said that ... i'm finally thinking of trying Diablo2 (yeah, call me &quot;late bloomer&quot and i'm hoping that it's not too demanding of my vid card. From what I see it won't be a problem.

I'm gonna see how long I can go without upgrading my CL TNT1!

 

[jimmygates]

I used a Viper V330 back in the day (Riva 128 chip). The card used horrible MIP MAP compression to obtain at that time outrageous benchmark scores. Too bad everything looked like you were view items through a screen door.




-Jimbo