NVIDIA's Detonator3 Drivers - Teaching an "old" dog new tricks

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While we're not too happy that NVIDIA's NV20 won't be coming out until next Spring, the release of the Detonator3 drivers have lessened the blow.

GeForce2 GTS owners should be happy with the new drivers because the card now outperforms the Radeon in almost all situations, even with the Radeon's updated drivers.

GeForce SDR owners should be extremely pleased with the Detonator3 drivers as their extremely memory bandwidth crippled cards that once cost $300 now get a healthy boost in frame rate just by installing some new drivers. Those of you that were lucky enough to hold off until DDR GeForce cards became available get a performance boost as well, and there should be no complaining from that end either.

Even the low-cost GeForce2 MX enjoys a healthy increase in performance since it is also very memory bandwidth limited.

The only users that aren't effected in a positive manner are the TNT/TNT2/TNT2 Ultra owners, sorry guys, but you're out of luck this time around. For everyone else, enjoy the free performance boost.