Creative on Fill Rate

October 8, 1999 11:30 AM

Ever since that statement from Glaze3D about the GeForce benchmarks sucking, Creative Labs has been in quite a huff. Have a look at their latest response in an attempt to make the card look better. I love that "I can't tell you why because of NDA" stuff. It's my favorite.

... do you always have to read a Z [buffer]? Nope, in some systems you can skirt this issue as well. Because of NDA's I can't tell you how Nvidia or 3Dfx or S3 or anybody actually gets more bandwidth out of a system, all I can say is that the simplistic calculations are utterly beside the point.

Steve Gibson

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

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October 8, 1999 11:39 AM

I don\'t get all this bullshit with the GeForce.

The benchmarks. The NDA. The drivers. The excuses. Nvidia\'s history of lying. DDR will fix it.

The V4 is looking better every day.