
The flagship of the PC graphics business is GeForce3. Unfortunately, if you tried to buy a GeForce3 card in recent weeks you may have experienced a big disappointment. Despite the press being able to test GeForce3 as early as March, the average customer sought for boards in vain. In fact, it wasn't until the beginning of June that the first boards began to appear on store shelves.
Maybe, NVIDIA had taken on too much. The GeForce3 had, in fact, been scheduled for launch in January. At Cebit in March, NVIDIA claimed that delivery would begin soon thereafter. When the end of May rolled around and there still weren't any GeForce3 graphics cards on the market, a lot of users began to get annoyed. Fantastic test results are useless if you can only read about them.
Now, finally, consumer demand is being met - NVIDIA has officially introduced revision A5 of the chip, after having chucked the A3 stepping as "non-final." Tom's Hardware has taken this opportunity to test seven GeForce3 graphics cards from Asus, Elsa, Hercules, Gainward, Leadtek, MSI and Visiontek.
- Introduction
- GeForce3 Up Close & Personal
- The Boards In Brief
- Asus V8200 Deluxe
- Asus V8200 Deluxe, Continued
- Video Encoder And Decoder In One Chip
- Drivers
- Drivers, Continued
- Asus Taskbar
- Video Recorder
- Asus Live
- Hardware Monitor
- Elsa Gladiac 920
- Video Module
- Drivers
- Gainward CARDEXpert GeForce3
- Video-In And Video-Out With Philips Chip
- Powerpack / Expert Tool
- Expert Tool, Continued
- Taskbar
- Video Recorder, Continued
- Video Recorder, Continued
- Hercules 3D Prophet III
- Connectors And TV-Out
- Drivers
- Leadtek WinFast GeForce3
- Drivers
- Drivers, Continued
- Taskbar
- Winfox
- MSI Starforce822
- Connectors And VIVO Module
- Drivers
- 3D! Turbo
- 3D! Turbo, Continued
- 3D! Turbo, Continued
- Visiontek GeForce3
- TV-Out Connector
- Drivers
- Test Methodology And Configuration
- Game Benchmarks At 1024x768
- MDK2 1024
- Aquamark 1024
- Quake3 Normal 1024
- Quake3 High Quality 1024
- Dronez 1024
- MTBR 1024
- Game Benchmarks At 1600x1200
- MDK 1600
- Aquamark 1600
- Quake3 Normal 1600
- Quake3 High Quality 1600
- Dronez 1600
- MTBR 1600
- 3DMark 2000/2001 At 1024x768
- 3DMark2001 At 1024x768
- 3DMark 2000/2001 At 1280x1024
- 3DMark2001 1280x1024
- Overclocking
- Recommendations
- Features Table