the Guru 3D - review

3D Prophet II MX 64 MB

The memory on the videocard is SDRAM based and equipped with Hyundai chips rated 6ns. That's should allow us to overclock the videocards memory to about 183 MHz. The memory is clocked at the standard 166MHz though. If we do a small calculation that means a memory bandwidth of: (1x128) x 166MHz :8bit = 2656 MB/Sec and that is bandwidth on your average selling MX videocard. It would have been nicer to see 5.5ns memory modules as the 3D Prophet II MX PCI also has.

The Specs

256bit graphics core
0.18 micron technology
175MHz graphics core working frequency
2 rendering pipelines, with 2 texturing blocks each
128bit (SDR) memory bus and 64bit (DDR) memory bus supporting 166-300MHz correspondingly
The supported memory types include: DDR SGRAM and a standard SDR SDRAM/SGRAM
8-64MB local graphics memory
2.7GB/sec memory bus bandwidth
Pixel fillrate: 350Mpixels per second
Texel fillrate: 700Mtexels per second
350MHz integrated RAMDAC
Max display resolution - 2048x1536 at 75Hz
Integrated Dual-Link TMDS transmitters, which allow connecting two digital displays independently
External bus interface: full AGP 4x/2x (including Fast Writes).
Built-in High-Definition Video Processor (HDVP), which allows turning PCs into full-quality DVD players and HDTV receivers/players
Digital Vibrance Control, which makes all images including 2D, 3D, and video more colorful and vibrant, even on digital flat panels

	GeForce 256	GeForce2 MX	GeForce2 GTS	GeForce2 ULTRA	GeForce2 PRO
Process Technology	.22 micron	.18 micron	.18 micron	.18 micron	.18 micron
GPU core Frequency	120MHz	175MHz	200MHz	250MHz	200MHz
Texels/Clockcycle	4	4	8	8	8
Texels/Second	480 Million	700 Million	1600 Million	2000 Million	1600 Million
Shading Processor	Nope	Yeah!	Yeah	Yeah	Yeah
TwinView	Nope	Yeah	Nope	Nope	Nope