ASUS V9950 Ultra (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra) Video Card Review

Dom · Aug 21, 2003, 12:01 PM

Have you noticed that up to the year 2000 inclusive NVIDIA liked using suffixes. They had Pro and Ultra. Although ATI also used "Pro" earlier for its RAGE 128 PRO, NVIDIA didn't avoid these three letter and used it to give names to such products as TNT2 Pro, GeForce2 Pro.
The marketers at NVIDIA says that Pro is an intermediate link between an ordinary version and Ultra.
Their colleagues from ATI consider Pro to be the premium reward and stick this suffix to the leaders in every group (High-, Middle-, Low- end).
NVIDIA thus lost any interest to this suffix, and now the supreme title in every group of 3D accelerators is Ultra.
This is how suffixes are divided between two companies :-). So, RADEON 9800 PRO vs. GeForce FX 5900 Ultra. This struggles has started long ago. By the way, ATI hates "Ultra" (obviously because of its popularity in NVIDIA's cards) and doesn't even distinguish its most powerful 256MB accelerator based on the RADEON 9800 PRO, though they should have added something apart from the memory size.
But the struggle between the companies and our investigation show that the reality is not that simple.

Full review at Digit-Life.com