How many Geforce3's?

[JimmiG]

I was just wondering, how many Geforce 3 cards would it take to match the performance of one GTX280 card? The Geforce3 was super fast and very expensive, and the first card with truly programmable shaders, but just how much faster and advanced have videocards become since then?

 

[SPARTAN VI]

Using Mentok's lovely site:
http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=132&card2=567

So just to make up the same memory bandwidth alone, you'll need the raw power of just over 19 vanilla GeForce3's. And before people get on my case, I know things do not scale perfectly.

 

[tisb0b]

Based on the memory bandwidth figures provided by gpureview you'd need 20.

GOD DAMN SPARTAN YOU ASS YOU BEAT ME LAWLZ

 

[Pyroja]

Interesting.

But how many Library of Congresses is that?

 

[j3ff86]

Over 9,000.

 

[Porter_]

based on Richard Simmons' site you'd need 37 man-fro's to equal the pixel fill rate of the GTX 280.