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GeForce3 Titanium Reviews

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the simulating-the-third-dimension dept.

Paladin128 sent us Tom's and Anandtech's respective reviews of the new NVIDIA GeForce3 Titanium series. DX8.1 compatibility (What is that anyway?), Shadow Buffers, 3D Textures, assorted other stuffs. Hey, but why is everything 'Titanium' now anyway? Laptops. Batteries. Video cards. I wonder if I can get titanium plating.

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  1. Dell has these on the 8200 series by Mr.Phil · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dell is featuring these on the Dimension 8200 series as an upgrade from the default GeForce2 MX cards.

  2. Re:hey.. by blazin · · Score: 4, Funny

    And since Titanium cards are now the next better things past Platinum cards, to quote a Busta' Rhymes song:

    "I'm so rich, I got ridda' all my platimun cards, and I got me a Uranium card..."

  3. Shadow buffers by The+Ultimate+Badass · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is an excellent addition, and very much needed. Shadows can be one of the hardest thingsto get looking good in OpenGL, and usually they are done in a hacked out, unsatistfactory sort of way, sometimes just by copying the model, setting all textures to black and using shear and scale transforms to squish the model onto the floor. This will hopefully do a much better job.

    As for titanium plating -- you don't want it, trust me. It scratches and stains far too easily, and you can't clean it when it does. Looks good when it's undamaged, though.

    --

    Denial isn't just a river in Italy

  4. Overclocked GF3 by [amorphis] · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Geforce Ti 500 is just an overclocked Geforce 3.

    Looking at Anand's Geforce 3 roundup, all of the cards tested overclocked to the performance level of the GF Ti 500. Generally, the core speed was lower, but the memory was faster.

  5. It's just a price cut by Animats · · Score: 5, Informative
    The real news is that the entry-level GeForce 3 is now $199. The new high-end board isn't that much faster, and has exactly the same capabilities as the original GeForce 3. NVidia didn't put in more RAM, which was the expected next step.

    John Carmack said, when the GEForce 3 came out, that developers should get one immediately, but gamers should wait. This new one is the "consumer product" version.

    Remember that the GEForce 3 is the graphics engine in the XBox. So when the XBox games start shipping for the Xmas season, the PC versions will use GEForce 3 features. I'm looking forward to seeing somebody do something good with the vertex shaders. I have the Chameleon demo and a GeForce 3, so I can see what's possible.

  6. Re:Yeah but... by turbine216 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Nvidia only provides one generic open-source driver for xFree86, which supports full 2D acceleration, and supports OpenGL 1.2. From an interview last year with nvidia's Nick Triantos:


    "Basically, NVIDIA's drivers cannot be open sourced. They contain several components which are licensed technology, and we have no rights to share that source code with anyone. We do not even provide source code to OpenGL or our kernel module to our board customers"


    seems like a reasonable explanation to me. (Interview from theDukeofURL.org.

  7. GeForce 3 Ti 200 by Wolfier · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does anyone see that???

    NO FAN !!!!

    That's why my video cards so far have been Voodoo3 2000 and Asus GeForce 2MX.

    No fans. For the peace of mind. For the lack of the ugly wire. For _real_ advances from 0.18 to 0.15 microns, not just overclock-it-bruteforce-and-do-some-cooldown-patch work.

    Good job! I'm looking forward to seeing faster no-fan video cards.