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Conclusion
What can I say? The NV40 totally blew me away! Although we did not have much time to really test it, the few benchmarks we ran certainly tells us a lot!
ATI looks like it is in for a big surprise. NVIDIA has apparently learned from the mistakes made in the NV30/35 core and made the NV40 everything that we hoped it would be.
Across the board, the NV40 appears to be 40-100% faster than both the GeForce FX 5950 and Radeon 9800XT. Now, isn't that something?
What's more, our source tells that the beta driver is still not perfect. If his/her hints are anything to go by, we should see much greater performance from the NV40 once the driver is fully optimized.
Well, there you have, our preview of the NV40. Hope you all enjoyed it! 
Note : We hope
you all enjoyed this April Fool's Day spoof! We sincerely apologize to NVIDIA
for giving them such a shock by "publishing" benchmarks
of the NV40 before the launch. We wish NVIDIA all the best in the upcoming
launch in San Francisco. And of course, we would like to wish both NVIDIA
and ATI best of luck in the upcoming battle between the NV40 and R420 GPUs!
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| Date | Revision | Revision History |
| 01-04-2004 | 1.0 | Initial release. |
| 02-04-2004 | 1.1 | Added a note in the Conclusion. |
