When we look closely at the board it's basically the same design as the normal GeForce3 Ti500 reference model, small modifications to the PCB have been made likely to ensure better performance. Of course it is equipped at standard with ramsinks (did you know Hercules was the first to use these on any graphics card ?) and the sturdy modified Blue Orb GPU cooler.

The biggest difference between a GeForce3 and GeForce3 Ti 500 is basically clockspeed and higher memory bandwidth.  When we do a small calculation we notice that the Ti 500 has a breathtaking ((2x128bit) x 250MHz) : 8bit  = 8000 MB/sec  memory bandwidth, combine this with a faster clocked Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and you have the fastest and versatile consumer videocard to date.

GeForce 3	GeForce3 Ti 500
Core: 200 MHz	Core: 240 MHz
Memory: 460 MHz (2x 230 DDR)	Memory: 500 MHz (2x250 DDR)