Creative Labs 3D Blaster GeForce 3 Ti200 review

Posted by Thomas McGuire on December 26, 2001
Manufacturer: Creative Labs Europe     Product: 3D Blaster GeForce 3 Titanium 200

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Technical Specifications

Architecture Highlights

• 64MB 400MHz Double Data Rate (DDR) Memory

• 700 Billion Operations Per Second

• 35M triangles/sec

• 6.4 GB/sec Memory Bandwidth

• 4 anisotropic filtered pixels/clock

• 2.8 Billion Samples per Second FSAA Fill Rate

• TV-Out

• nfiniteFX Engine for full programmability

• Lightspeed Memory Architecture for unmatched performance

Specification

• 256-bit graphics architecture

• AGP 1X, 2X and 4X support, including Fast Writes and Execute Mode

• Memory configuration 64MB of DDR Memory @ 400Mhz

• 175Mhz Core Clock Speed

• 350Mhz RAMDAC

Programmable Vertex Shaders

• Procedural deformations

• Programmable matrix palette skinning

• Keyframe animation interpolation

• Morphing

• Fog effects: Radial, Elevation & Non-linear

• Lens effects: Fish-eye, Wide-angle, Fresnel effects, & Water refraction

Programmable Pixel Shaders

• Phong-style lighting for per-pixel accuracy

• Dot3 bump mapping

• Environmental bump mapping (EMBM)

• Procedural textures

• Per-pixel reflections

• HRAA - high-resolution antialiasing
  Featuring Quincunx AA mode

Integrated hardware transform engine

Integrated hardware lighting engine

• 8 lights per rendering pass

• Any combination of infinite, local, directional or spot

• Colored lights

DirectX® and S3TC® texture compression

Dual cube environment mapping capability

• Reflection maps

• Accurate, real-time environment reflections

Hardware accelerated real-time shadows

True, reflective bump mapping

• Z-correct bump mapping

• Phong-style lighting effects on bump maps with reflections

High-performance 2D rendering engine

• Optimized for 32-, 24-, 16-, 15- and 8bpp modes

• True-color hardware cursor with alpha

• Multi-buffering (double, triple or quad) for smooth animation and video playback

High-quality HDTV/DVD playback

• High-definition video processor (HDVP) for full-screen, full-frame video playback of HDTV and DVD content

• Independent hardware color controls for video overlay

• Hardware color-space conversion (YUV 4:2:2 and 4:2:0)

• Motion compensation

• 5-tap horizontal by 3-tap vertical filtering

• 8:1 up/down scaling

PERFORMANCE

• Per-pixel color keying

• Multiple video windows supported for CSC and filtering

• DVD sub-picture alpha-blended compositing

Bundled Software

• Incoming Forces : Full version

• E-Racer : 4 track version

Warranty

• 3-year limited warranty covering parts and labour

Select The 3D Blaster GeForce 3 Ti 200 Technical Specifications Stability and Texture Compression FSAA and Hidden Surface Removal (HSR) 2D Quality, Anisotropic Filtering and T&L Overclocking and Performance More Testing (DVD, HSR & FSAA) Pros, Cons and Conclusion

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