GeForce3 Performance

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Test Setup

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Platform
Motherboard MSI K7 Master-S, AMD760 Chipset
Processor Athlon 1333, overclocked to 1466 MHz
Memory 256 MB Micron PC2100 CL2 DDR-SDRAM
Hard Drive IBM DTLA307030 ATA100 IDE FAT32/NTFS
Operating System Windows98SE for game benchmarksWindows2000 SP1 for SPECviewperf 6.1.2
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Graphics Cards
NVIDIA GeForce3 64 MB, Driver 11.01, Chip Clock 200 MHz, Memory Clock 460 MHz (DDR)
NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra 64 MB, Driver 11.01, Chip clock 250 MHz, Memory clock 460 MHz (DDR)
NVIDIA GeForce2 Pro 64 MB, Driver 11.01, Chip Clock 200 MHz, Memory Clock 400 MHz (DDR)
NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS 32 MB, Driver 11.01, Chip Clock 200 MHz, Memory Clock 366 MHz (DDR)
ATi Radeon DDR 64 MB, Driver, Chip Clock 183 MHz, Memory Clock 183 MHz

Theoretical Numbers

It's always good to have a look at the theoretical numbers provided by the chipmakers, just to have an idea how far truth can be from reality and how pointless those number games really are.

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Header Cell - Column 0 Memory Bandwidth Pixel Fill Rate Texel Fill Rate
NVIDIA GeForce3 7360 MB/s 800 MPixel/s 1600 MTexel/s
NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra 7360 MB/s 1000 MPixel/s 2000 MTexel/s
NVIDIA GeForce2 Pro 6400 MB/s 800 MPixel/s 1600 MTexel/s
NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS 5856 MB/s 800 MPixel/s 1600 MTexel/s
ATi Radeon 5856 MB/s 366 MPixel/s 1098 MTexel/s

If you look at those numbers, GeForce3 should be inferior to GeForce2 Ultra. Let's see if this is indeed the case.

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