October 1st NVIDIA fulfilled their promise by announcing to us a new product line-up in their 6 month product cycle. As we all knew from a leaked document, Titanium is what the new series has been called. This secret was way out of the box before NVIDIA could keep a lit on it. The Titanium series of GPUs are to be produced on TSMC’s 0.15-micron-enhanced process technology that features higher performance transistors.

Right after the official announcement we immediately got flooded with press-releases from companies like Hercules, Gainward, ASUS, MSI, VIsiontek, 3D Power, Inno3D, ProView and ELSA. They all will be releasing products based upon the new series. What has happened is that NVIDIA wants a clear and understandable product line. The consumer is confused .. let's face it. If you are just an average consumer who doesn't visit our site very often (shame on you) and you are in the shop you'll get drowned by the NVIDIA assortment of videocards .. GeForce2 MX DDR, GeForce2 MX SDR, 32/64 MB, GeForce2 Pro 32/64, GeForce2 Ultra, GeForce3. This is confusing. Although I don't have a clue if this is happening for real I expect that NVIDIA will slowly phase out the old line-up and will hit the market with the line-up you'll find below.
What can we expect ? Basically three products:

GeForce2 Titanium - Basically this is the GeForce2 Ultra with 250 MHz clock and 2x200 (400 MHz DDR) memory. The GeForce2 Ti Ultra Performance will be offered at an estimated price of $149. It is the new videocard for mainstream computers product by delivering 1 billion pixels/sec. rendering power and delivering a nice 6.4GB/sec. of bandwidth for the mainstream consumer.

GeForce3 Titanium 200 - Basically the new 'normal' GeForce3 .. a Ti200 GPU with 64 MB 2x200 (400 MHz DDR) memory. A core clock of 175 MHz. The GeForce 3 Ti 200 will be offered as a mainstream graphics processor and will be selling mid October 2001 at about $199,- The Ti 200 will run at 700 billion operations per second. Due to some optimizations on card and GPU level this little beast will perform just slightly slower then it's six months older brother the GeForce3.