Chapter 903 A More Powerful Opponent

To be honest, in Qin Feng's heart, Nvidia is indeed the most powerful, followed by ATI, and the now-famous Voodoo is third.

But at this moment, naturally you can't say that.

"I'm really sorry about the differences in national culture. In China, the more important things are ranked behind." Qin Feng explained quickly.

There is no better excuse in the world than this.

Sure enough, this explanation made the three people's expressions soften.

"Three of you, now, I just want to talk to you about cooperation!" Qin Feng said seriously, "Nowadays, your company's voodoo graphics card is the most powerful in the computer market. 3D graphics cards, but they are also facing crises and challenges. And our company is also facing a powerful win-tel alliance!"

The three of them did not say a word, but looked at Qin Feng. Regarding Qin Feng's alarmist talk, they wanted to know what kind of tricks Qin Feng could say.

When Qin Feng saw that the three of them did not leave but stayed, he knew something was going to happen.

No matter what, at least he didn't leave, so he gave himself a chance.

"First of all, your company's graphics card is very poor in 2D performance development!" Qin Feng said.

The three nodded. They don't object to this. After all, their voodoo graphics cards are specifically designed for 3D games, so the 2D performance is just a little bit worse.

There is nothing we can do about this. Fortunately, voodoo 2 has also been enhanced in 2D. Although it is not top-notch, it is much better than the first generation. It can only be said that it is worse than ati, but it is not necessarily worse than other brands.

"Of course, in terms of 2D, it is easy to catch up. The future of computer games is still in 3D!" Qin Feng said.

The three nodded. If Qin Feng wanted to say that 2d was important, then they would just walk away.

"Let's talk about 3D. I believe the three seniors should all know that Microsoft's win98 system is about to be released!" Qin Feng said.

When the three heard the name Microsoft, a slight look of disgust appeared on their faces.

When Qin Feng saw it, he knew it was even more exciting.

"And Microsoft has just launched a version with NVIDIA, you should also know it!" Qin Feng said.

Ross nodded.

Could they not be clear about it? They really don't have a good impression of Microsoft. Too domineering. Since the launch of win95, Microsoft has become more and more domineering. Use their strong dominance in the operating system market to require major manufacturers to jointly develop directx standards.

Is this standard good? Nature is good. It provides a common hardware driver standard for all involved, so that game developers do not have to write different drivers for each brand of hardware, and it also reduces the complexity of installing and setting up hardware for users.

It can be said that this standard is very good. But the problem lies here, this is launched by Microsoft. Once it receives global response, all related hardware companies and game companies must rely on this platform for development.

Although the beneficiaries are all over the world, the biggest beneficiary is Microsoft. With this platform, Microsoft will have no rivals in desktop systems in the future. It's impossible for anyone to challenge Microsoft.

In this case, everyone will have to look at Microsoft's face in the future.

This is what their 3dfx company is unwilling to do.

The three founders quit their companies and started their own businesses with annual salaries of hundreds of thousands of dollars, just for that freedom.

So, they don't compromise. They are the only display chip company not open to Microsoft's DirectX.

They have their pride.

"But NVIDIA and Microsoft have cooperated, and NVIDIA will become your company's most powerful opponent." Qin Feng said.

"NVIDIA?" The three of them twitched their lips.

How could Nvidia be their opponent?

ati is pretty much the same.

Qin Feng smiled.

"I have internal information here. Nvidia will launch an epoch-making 3D graphics card called tnt within this year!" Qin Feng said, "If my information is correct, the technical indicator of tnt should be 0.35 micron core Process, 90mhz core frequency, 8m of video memory, 110mhz video memory frequency, and its pixel fill rate has reached an astonishing 180mhz per second." Qin Feng said slowly.

When TNT was born, just like its name, it exploded all over the world.

It directly became the most popular graphics card in the world that year, directly knocking voodoo off the altar.

Because the most popular voodoo graphics card today has a pixel fill rate of only 90m per second when other aspects are almost the same.

It can be said that in terms of pixel fill rate, Nvidia's tnt has directly doubled.

Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels rendered by the graphics processing unit per second. The unit is mpixel/s (millions of pixels per second), or gpixel/s (gigapixels per second), which is used to measure the current graphics card. The most common metric for pixel processing performance. The rendering pipeline of the graphics card is an important part of the display core. It is a set of specialized channels in the display core responsible for adding color to graphics. The more rendering pipelines there are, the higher the working frequency of each group of pipelines (usually the core frequency of the graphics card), the higher the fill rate of the drawn graphics card, and the higher the performance of the graphics card, so it can be filled from the pixels of the graphics card The performance of the graphics card can be roughly judged based on the rate.

It can be said that this directly affects the performance of the graphics card. Especially in 3D processing, pixel fill rate is crucial.

After the three people heard this, they were obviously horrified.

If it really comes out, voodoo 2 will be completely defeated. It is even said that the voodoo 3 they are developing is not as good as tnt in terms of pixel fill rate. Voodoo 3 is planned to be launched in the middle of next year.

This gap is too big.

"Qin Feng, how could you know NVIDIA's internal secrets?" Ross couldn't believe it.

Qin Feng smiled.

Of course he doesn't know, but as one of the thousands of game fans who admired TNT and wanted a piece of it but couldn't get it, he is well aware of the performance of subsequent generations of Nvidia.

There was no way, various media reports that year were crazy about Nvidia's graphics card performance. No fan of NVIDIA has been disappointed. Its development speed far exceeds Moore's Law. Its performance has been doubled and its price has been reduced by half in less than 18 months.

That's why Qin Feng went to Nvidia. However, NVIDIA, which truly masters core technology, does not rely on itself. In other words, NVIDIA directly embraces the big tree of Microsoft, so it does not need to cooperate with Qin Feng.

"If this is really the case, then we will indeed be in trouble!" Ross said with a frown.

"No, it's not just trouble, it's also a crisis!" Qin Feng kept attacking, "Because, according to my source, the price of tnt will most likely not exceed US$200!"

Not more than $200? !