Other reviewers have noticed
problems with anti -aliased (AA) wireframe performance for the GeForce equipped
cards; the GLoria II with the Quadro GPU should not have this problem. GLperf
was used to investigate the AA line performance of the cards used in this review.
The chart below shows the results for 32 pixel flat shaded AA lines and illustrates
the GeForce/driver issue:
In this test, the GLoria II
Quadro SDR performed best and was about twice as fast as the next best (GVX1 –
AGP). However, the GeForce needs a lot more zeros added to its score to be competitive!
The GeForce’s 100 lines per second is less than one got in 1985 on at Tektronix
4014 graphics terminal at 9600 baud. It’s interesting to note that the GeForce’s
performance here is considerably lower than that of its predecessor, the TNT2
Ultra. It’s obvious that NVIDIA was trying to distinguish the GeForce as clearly
a gaming solution and not suited for professional applications. Hopefully, NVIDIA
will fix this problem with the next driver release but more realistically, we
won’t see any attention from NVIDIA to this problem with the GeForce. Their most
likely response to the issue would be “buy a Quadro.”
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