I started with 3DFx -- I remember them as $300 cards all those years ago -- with less than 1/100th the performance (or is it 1/1000th) of modern cards. Have even saved my original cards. I was saddened to see 3DFx throw it away apparently due to arrogance and, evidently, a lack of business acumen and/or common sense.

I've read some of the Nvidia test reports -- similar to the leaked results published recently. Now, I await AMD's first 14nm product reports.