AMD meldt met grote blijheid dat de nVidia GeForce2 geoptimaliseerd is voor het AMD platform. Basicly wil dat zeggen dat er 3DNow! support door de GeForce drivers is gemixt. Eerdere liet iXBT Labs zien dat Athlon gebruikers met de recente Detonator 5.14 drivers een behoorlijk performance sprongetje kunnen verwachten:
AMD announced today that NVIDIA's groundbreaking GeForce2 GTS, the first shading graphics processor unit (GPU) for the desktop PC market, has been fully optimized for use with AMD processor platforms, including platforms based on the AMD Athlon™ processor. Significant gains in performance are being realized through optimizations at both the silicon and software driver level.The GeForce2 GTS combines blazing fast graphics processing and powerful new features like the NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer (NSR) that delivers a major step towards truly interactive, cinematic-quality real-time graphics. The NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer is a radical new technology that enables sophisticated per-pixel shading capabilities delivering the next-generation of visual realism to the PC platform.