January 2003 3Digest - NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200

This chip is presented by reference Chaintech A-G320 GeForce3 Ti200 64MB, AGP videocard.

Features:

NVIDIA GeForce3, 175 MHz clock rate;
64MB DDR SDRAM memory in eight EliteMT 4ns microchips, 200 (400) MHz clock rate, 128-bit bus;
Peak fill rate in the multitexturing mode without optimizations is 700 megapixels/sec and 1400 megatexels/sec.

Wasn't overclocked.

By the end of the month the product belongs to the $75-95 range; supports DirectX 8.0; closest rivals: GeForce4 MX 460, MX 440 with AGP8x, RADEON 9000 Pro, Xabre400, Xabre600.

On the 10th of January 2003 the latest drivers from NVIDIA are 41.34, 41.80 and 42.01 for Windows XP.

You can see perfomance readouts of this card in the summary diagrams.

And now I want to attract your attention to another important 3D feature - filtering. As many of you know, all chipsets support bilinear filtering that is an important instrument in MIP-mapping, some chipsets support trilinear filtering (true, not the approximation) and only few support anisotropic filtering.

Due to the fact that GeForce2 and GeForce3 do support - anisotropic filtering, I recommend you to pay attention to the article concerning this feature.

I shall mark that GeForce3 supports new types of antialiasing based on multisampling (MSAA) technology, including noteworthy Quincunx mode (read about it in our GeForce3). Here are two examples: