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GeForce3: Reviews & Editorials
 | Computer Games Magazine - 3D Battle Royale "It looks like a clean sweep for NVIDIA in this round. The Ti 500 steals away the performance crown, mid-range buyers can't do any better than the Ti 200, and the price/performance ratio of the GeForce2 Ti makes it the top low-cost card." |
| | Penstarsys.com -- The Truth About Ti "Now nearly anyone can afford to buy a product that utilizes GF3 technology, and OEM’s will be snapping up these cards like never before. Making this technology available to a wider market will help to keep NVIDIA products at the top of everyone’s want list. " |
| | PC Magazine -- Graphics Chips to Die and Restart for "The NVIDIA chip won all of our 3-D tests." |
| | Bjorn3d.com -- NVIDIA Titanium Series - Part 1 "The GeForce3 Ti500 is awarded a score of 9.5 out of 10 and the Bjorn3d Golden Bear Award for being the unsurpassed speed, visual quality, and compatability king that it is." |
| | Tweak3d -- GeForce3 Ti 500 Preview "The GF3 Ti500 is definitely the fastest video card for games that we've tested to date." |
| | Extremetech --GeForce3 Titanium series "The price/performance ratio of a Titanium 200 coupled with an Athlon is simply awesome." |
| | Anandtech -- NVIDIA's Fall Product Line: GeForce3 Titanium "If you're a Quake III Arena fan you should be very happy. Could you have imagined seeing 223 fps at 1024 x 768 x 32 in this game when it first came out?" |
| | HardOCP -- GeForce3 Titanium 500 "To be sure, neither one of these cards find Quake3 a challenge until you get into the 1600x1200 resolution, and then the Ti500 still pulls in over 100FPS." |
| | HardOCP -- Titanium Ti 200/GF2Ti "Overall, the Ti200 is an awesome card at an awesome price." |
| | HotHardware -- GeForce3 Ti 500 and NVIDIA's new Fall lineup "There is no denying that nVidia has once again delivered a group of top-notch products. " |
| | AMDZone -- GeForce3 Titanium Review "Simply amazing. The two best words to describe this card by far are, simply amazing....They are not only the fastest cards on paper; they are the fastest cards on the shelves. These three cards, the Ti500, Ti200 and GeForce2 Ti redefine nVidia's product line....Simply amazing. Performance and price. There are not enough marketing cliches to do this card justice; it just rocks. The great part about the Titanium line is there is a product for any enthusiast's budget." |
| | Firingsquad -- GeForce3 Ti 500 Preview "Like the real world metal, NVIDIA Titanium series of GPUs offers incredible levels of performance, but unlike its real-life counterpart (which is expensive to produce) its price won't break your bank account in the process." |
| | Sharkyextreme -- NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 500 Review 9.5 out of 10! |
| | Tech-Report--OCZ Titan 3 "The Titan 3 is still a phenomenal GeForce3 implementation. The Titan 3 ran our gauntlet of tests without so much as blinking, even when overclocked. Not only is it cooled well, it also has a certain functional beauty that those of you with case windows will surely appreciate." |
| | Evil3D--VisionTek Xtasy 6964 & 6564 Review "The Xtasy 6964 GF3 Ti 500 is quite simply an amazing piece of engineering. There cannot be a serious gamer out there who doesn't wish they had this absolutely awesome performer in their gaming rig." |
| | NewsForge--GeForce3 Review "Like the reference boards from Nvidia, the Elsa has heatsinks on the RAM, something nice for overclockers who want to increase their memory bandwidth." |
| | PC Hardware--GeForce3 Review “GeForce3 is a very powerful chip." |
| | M3D Zone--GeForce3 Review "Hercules has made a good card and the performance is really good. It has a nice Thermal take chipset cooler onboard too." |
| | NVNews--GeForce3 Review "This is the card that I would recommend to a newbie wanting to game like the pros, or at least look like it. I would also recommend this card to anyone waiting for a good excuse to upgrade who does not always put the lowest price at the top of the list." |
| | Tweak 3D--GeForce3 Review “Gainward has come through with a solid product in the GeForce3 PowerPack! Delivering on both the speed and value fronts can be a difficult thing, but Gainward has found a perfect balance of the two resulting in superior product.” |
| | NeoSeeker--GeForce3 Review “The Titan 3 performed very well in the 12 hour stability test - not crashing or even faltering. This gives credit to the cooling measures, namely the BlOrb and the copper heatsinks, taken by OCZ to maximize the overclocking capabilities of the card. You can’t get much simpler than out-of-the-box overclocking.” |
| | Got Apex--GeForce3 Review "The GAINWARD GeForce3 PowerPack!!! VIVO Golden Sample offers more then just the pinnacle of graphic excellence." |
| | Tweak 3D -- Hercules 3D Prophet 3 "Hercules has done a fine job producing the Prophet 3 and what catches my eyes the most are its heatsinks on both the core and memory." |
| | Guru 3D -- 3D Blaster GeForce3 "There is absolutely no discussion possible about the fact that the GeForce3 is the fastest and most versatile graphics videocard available. When you can afford to buy this puppy ($349-399) you can be certain of one thing, it will last a long time and you'll love it." |
| | Gamers Depot -- Absolute Morpheus GeForce3 "When a reference design is so tight that there's not much you can do to your card's architecture to separate it from its competition (such is the case of the GeForce3), what do you do to compete? Absolute Multimedia went for glitz, and a pinch of added value, for its Morpheus GeForce3. The glitz is its wooden box, and the value consists of both its bundle, which goes a few games beyond the average, and that after you get the card installed, you can make a shelf out of the packaging!" |
| | HotHardware--The Absolute Morpheus GeForce3 "We like the Absolute MORPHEUS GeForce3 so much, we're giving it the coveted HotHardware Editor's Choice Award." |
| | Tom's Hardware Guide -- 7 GeForce3 Cards: Trial by Fire “The winner with regard to extras is the Asus V8200 Deluxe. It has video-in and TV-out connectors and comes with 3D shutter glasses.” |
| | OverclockersRIP.com -- Asus V-8200 GeForce 3 Deluxe Review "The card is fast. Very fast. A lot of people talk about the GeForce 3 not being much faster than a GeForce 2 Ultra. From what I have seen with this card, they are the same speed up to 1024x768 or 1200x1024 resolution. Above that, the GF3 keeps the speeds high, while the GF2 starts to slow down. The difference in playing at 1024x768 with average quality and 1600x1200 with all the eye candy on (details, pixel shaders, bump mapping, etc.) is amazing. You literally have to see it to believe it." |
| | FiringSquad -- ASUS V8200 GeForce3 "The performance of this card compared to other GeForce3s isn't going to be any different, but anything other than a GeForce3 is going to have a hard time keeping up." |
| | Sharky Extreme -- ELSA Gladiac 920 GeForce3 "The question of whether to buy a GeForce3 cards depends on your current hardware and your available budget. These cards do not come cheap, but the GeForce3 does offer both high-end performance and cutting edge features, and will likely be a bit more future-proof than most 3D video cards." |
| | Bare Feats -- GeForce3 Comparison "If you are buying a new, high end Power Mac, I think the $250 for the optional GeForce3 is money well spent. If you are buying it as an after market addon, it will cost you twice that much. In that case, you might try selling your old graphics card to help recover your upgrade cost." |
| | HotHardware--Leadtek WinFast GeForce3 "The Winfast GeForce 3 TD offers all of the features discriminating gamers are looking for...excellent performance, stability and compatibility." |
| | AnandTech--MSI StarForce 822 "The MSI StarForce 822 is perhaps the best solution available..." |
| | Maximum3D -- VisionTek GeForce3 "The GeForce3 represents a leap forward not only for NVIDIA, but for the entire consumer graphics market. The programmable GPU, efficient memory architecture, and the superb Quincunx Anti-Aliasing are a glimpse of what we have to look forward to in the future, while the legacy T&L support don't leave current titles behind." |
| | nV News -- NVIDIA GeForce3 Preview "If you thought the GeForce256 was revolutionary, then wait until you see what the GeForce3 has to offer." |
| | pcrave.com -- NVIDIA GeForce3 64MB DDR "The GeForce3 is the next big thing for PC graphics. Pixel shaders and vertex shaders are the next big discontinuity in visual quality and realism. It will really change the way we see graphics." |
| | ignpc -- The GeForce3 Unveiled "The GeForce3 stands ready to give gamers incredible increases in both the quality and speed of the visuals. And it's about time, quite honestly. Although expectations for the card have been high (it's been almost a year since the GeForce2 was showcased) it looks as if the GeForce3 will live up to all of the promises that have been made about it." |
| | Happy Puppy -- NVIDIA Dazzles "nVidia has the potential to go from the graphics brand of choice to practically a necessity for the hard-core gamer." |
| | Tom's Hardware Guide -- High-Tech and Vertex Juggling: NVIDIA's New GeForce3 GPU "NVIDIA's GeForce3 graphics chip is certainly the most feature rich high-tech product I have ever reviewed. Its amount of new technology is simply overwhelming." |
| | ZDNet -- Hits & Hype "If you've simply got to have the latest and greatest graphics, there's little doubt that this is it." |
| | Computer Games Online -- Inside the GeForce3 "The feature set of the GeForce3 is a major leap forward. There's finally a video card that fully accelerates all of the radically different features of DirectX 8. It doesn't hurt that it's blazing fast on current games, especially in 32-bit color at high resolutions or with anti-aliasing enabled." |
| | BrokenPixel -- BrokenPixel's GeForce3 Preview "The introduction of the GeForce3 has definitely set the benchmark for rest of the graphics industry. Finally thanks to NVIDIA's nfiniteFX Engine, developers will have a way to harness the full power of the GPU and bring a richer more visually stunning 3D environment to the computer screen. Competing graphics companies will be hard-pressed to come up with a solution as powerful and flexible as the GeForce3." |
| | Gamers Depot -- NVIDIA GeForce3: First Look "For the first time in ages, we have a 3D chip that has the potential to go down in the history books as being a pivotal point in Computer gaming." |
| | AnandTech -- NVIDIA GeForce3 "We are still very impressed with the GeForce3, and applaud NVIDIA for architecting a wonderful chip and the technology behind it." |
| | GamePC -- NVIDIA GeForce3 Hands On "Kudos to NVIDIA for raising the bar in PC graphics once again." |
| | Sharky Extreme -- NVIDIA GeForce3 "We finally received a GeForce3 card along with the most breathtaking 3D demos to ever grace our monitors. Now's the time to brush up on image quality, and there is no better DX8-capable card on the scene than the GeForce3. Don't believe us? Ask Microsoft... DX8 is a leap forward and if you think of it that way, NVIDIA is a safe bet to take that leap with, since they basically wrote the spec for DX8 in-cahoots with Microsoft. DX8-based games that make full or even partial use of a Geforce3's capabilities WILL look better. " |
| | MacCentral -- Inside the GeForce3 "With 57 million transistors, the GPU is more complex in many ways than the CPUs that drive Macs and PCs. But instead of relying purely on brute strength, NVIDIA has improved performance by adding functions that remove common bottlenecks and/or process data more efficiently." |
| | AnandTech -- NVIDIA's GeForce3: "NV20" Revealed "To summarize, realistic reflections, skin, hair, walls and overall extremely detailed surfaces are now finally going to be made possible through the use of the programmable technology behind NVIDIA's nfiniteFX engine." |
| | GameSpot -- Inside the GeForce3 "NVIDIA has moved in a new direction with the GeForce3, code-named the NV20. Immediately, you'll notice the impact of several features that dramatically improve the chip's efficiency, breaking through the bottleneck in memory bandwidth. The GeForce3 also introduces an effective method of anti-aliasing that doesn't reduce performance. But what makes the GeForce3 especially exciting is its new programmable effects engine that gives game designers an unlimited palette of special real-time animation and lighting effects." |
| | Wired News -- NVIDIA's 3D Vision is Clear "The CPU is supposed to be the brains of the computer, but NVIDIA's new GeForce3 Graphics Processing Unit is a whole lot smarter than the average 3-D chip." |
| | Sharky Extreme -- NVIDIA GeForce3 Preview "The developer response surrounding the GeForce3 is incredible. When I asked Tim Sweeny what he thought of the card he said, "The GeForce3 changes EVERYTHING about 3D graphics. What more can I say?" Other developers have echoed similar thoughts, and we can imagine this is mostly brought about by the programmability of the chip. Because of NVIDIA's close relationship with Microsoft, writing games centered on DirectX 8 should be an exercise in pure creativity." |
| | Tweak3D -- GeForce3 Preview "If you can't see where this technology might help, just think of some things you see every day that would be difficult to emulate in a digital environment. Imagine, for example, a flag waving in the wind. As simple as this sounds, it can be quite taxing on the CPU to create a realistic looking example. With a programmable vertex shader, it's a simple function." |
