VisionTek GeForce2 MX Twin-View preview

De mannen van Evil3D.net hebben een preview het net op gepleurt van de VisionTek GeForce2 MX Twin-View. Naast alle toeters en bellen van een normale GeForce2 MX heeft deze kaart de Twin-View feature, nVidia's term voor Dual Head support. Voorlopig blijkt het nog niet helemaal vlekkeloos te werken, maar dat is ook niet zo verwondelijk met een pre-production kaartje en beta drivers:

The VisionTek P38C01I is a solid card with a rather poor name. But hey, it's an OEM card, remember? By looking at the results it would appear that the card is, for the most part, right on par with the GeForce 256 SDRAM in performance put at a higher price. It certainly isn't the fastest card on the market, or the fastest of the NVIDIA family. But then again, NVIDIA never intended it be.

When will this card come out? Unknown. Most people know that VisionTek uses pure NVIDIA reference drivers. So, with them telling me the drivers aren't ready, that means NVIDIA hasn't gotten them out yet. This in turn probably means that every other vendor that has the hardware ready are also waiting on NVIDIA to finalize the drivers. End result? We will most likely see a mass number of manufacturers all release the card at the same time.

Will you get Twin-View in Linux? Maybe. Not much is known at this point. And with NVIDIA lagging behind on the original ones, getting the new features of the card on a Linux platform might take a good while.