Op deze pagina bij Geocities is een redelijk officieel lijkend document te downloaden waarin nVidia aan distributeurs en OEM's uitlegt waarom haar producten superieur zijn aan de Kyro II. In de tekst wordt de chip van Videologic, die in staat is gebleken de GeForce2 Ultra op sommige punten te verslaan, tot op het bot afgekraakt. Niet alleen op punten die in reviews naar voren zijn gekomen, maar ook door met een groot aantal misleidende en zelfs verzonnen gegevens te smijten. Deze worden op de site stuk voor stuk beschreven en onderuit gehaald. Als dit document daadwerkelijk van nVidia afkomstig is - en geen te laat ontdekte 1 april grap - is dat natuurlijk niet goed voor de reputatie van het bedrijf. Aan de andere kant is het ook niet bekend in hoeverre andere bedrijven zich bezighouden met dit soort praktijken:
"Kyro2 will look and perform terrible on new games • Giants, Black & White, Doom3"
Giants runs fine one KYROI, let alone KYROII, and in fact a patch has just been released by Interplay to enable Dot3 Bumpmapping in the game – meaning it looks much like a GeForce based boards, I assume NVIDIA thinks that these look horrible as well?
[...] As for Doom3, John Carmack has already stated that even GeForce3 will only be turning about 30FPS at 800x600 with all options on, so you certainly wouldn’t want to be stuck with an MX with that game. However, John has also stated that Doom3 will be using 8 texture layers – seeing as NVIDIA could only manage to implement 4 textures in one pass on GeForce3 in one pass it will need to do twice the passes KYROI/II does, which will eat up a whole bunch of performance.
"We did have an issue with Evolva, where the scene would render under Windows 2000, but no textures were applied to the models. After modifying all of the available compatibility options, we determined this must be a driver bug."
Wow, a driver bug? What, on a pre-release, pre-production board? And in Windows2000? Gasp! Are NVIDIA telling us that GF3 has none of these little niggles, ever? Given the pushed back release schedule and the patchy reviews of GeForce3… Anyway, Evolva seems to run fine on KYROI under Win9X/ME, just waiting for Computer Artworks to supply that Dot3 patch.
"Buying Kyro2 is a risk – and when cards and PCs get returned it damages your finances and your reputation."
And now NVIDIA goes further to insinuate that somehow any potential KYRO issues there may be (and remember, based on the evidence NVIDIA has used GeForce3 has equally, if not worse problems) will mean PC’s fail to operate correctly! Astonishing.