| NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200 |
In this review we will explain some facts on the new features that the GeForce3 Ti line-up harbors and then of course we will benchmark and compare this videocard towards other videocards like Radeon 7500, Kyro-II, GeForce2 MX, GeForce2 Ultra, GeForce3 and of course GeForce3 Ti500. We will use two platforms, one at 800 MHz and one at 1200 MHz. We'll also overclock this videocard to see how far it can actually go but first let's take a look at the tech specs:
Features:
- nVidia 256-bit nfinite FX (tm) graphics engine/ GPU /175MHz
- On Board 64MB -4ns DDR Memory /400MHz
- 128-bit wide Lightspeed Memory Architecture
- 6.4GB/sec. memory bandwidth
- 8-Layer design PCB
- High-Resolution Anti-Aliasing
- 350 MHz RAMDAC
- AGP 4X/2X, AGP texturing
- Digital Vibrance Control
- Programmable Vertex Shader
- Second Generation Integrated Transform and Lighting (T&L) Engines
- Driver Optimised Support for Microsoft DirectX 8.1, OpenGL 1.3
- Drivers Support for Win9X, WinME, WinNT4, Win2K, Windows XP
- TV-out
- Enhanced .15 micron(µ) Process
- 57 million transistors
- 64 MB DDR SDRAM
What is the
biggest difference between a GeForce3, GeForce Ti 200 and GeForce3 Ti 500 ? Basically
differences between clockspeed
and memory bandwidth.
| GeForce 3 Ti 200 | GeForce 3 | GeForce3 Ti 500 |
| Core: 175 MHz | Core: 200 MHz | Core: 240 MHz |
| Memory: 400 MHz (2x 200 DDR) | Memory: 460 MHz (2x 230 DDR) | Memory: 500 MHz (2x250 DDR) |
When we do a small calculation we notice that the Ti 200 has pretty good bandwidth ((2x128bit) x 200MHz) : 8bit = 6400 MB/sec memory bandwidth, combine this with a 175 MHz core clocked GeForce3 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and you have one of the fastest, compatible and versatile consumer videocard to date.
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