nVidia GPU is seven times faster than NV20

November 26, 2000 6:52 PM

nVidia GPU is seven times faster than NV20...the return of misleading headlines.
posted by hobbes (4 comments total)

It's worse than misleading, it's internally inconsistent. The GPU they're talking about is the NV-20. I think it's just a typo; they meant to say "...faster than the NV-15" which is the chip we all call the "GeForce 2 GTS".
posted by Steven Den Beste at 7:38 PM on November 26, 2000

"Nvidia is now introducing a programmable GPU, seven times faster than the previous Geforce 2 Ultra, the NV20."

Would have worked if they'd written "a programmable GPU, the NV20, seven times faster ..."

*sigh*

Anybody feel like sentence diagramming for kicks?
posted by dhartung at 10:04 PM on November 26, 2000

Bar english problems, the secret documents have arrived at several organisations. Seven times faster is on the high-end of revelations, the average is three.

Natch.
posted by holloway at 4:36 AM on November 27, 2000

I don't trust any article that says: "...an faster clock rate."
posted by Ptrin at 2:46 PM on November 27, 2000