Nvidia GeForce 3 series

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GeForce3 Ti 200 without heat sink

The GeForce 3 series is a series of desktop - graphics chip company Nvidia and successor of the "GeForce 2" series . With the GeForce 3 series, Nvidia is introducing DirectX 8 support for the first time .

Graphics processors

Only one graphics processor, the NV20, is used within the GeForce 3 series. It was the first graphics chip with support for pixel and vertex shaders according to DirectX 8. A special version (NV2A) was used in Microsoft's Xbox .

Graphics
chip
production Render pipelines API support Bus
interface
stelle
production
process
transis-
interfere
The
surface
Pipes × TMU × VPU Pixel
shader
vertex
shader
DirectX OpenGL
NV20 150 nm 57 million 128 mm² 4 × 8 × 1 1.1 1.1 8th 1.3 AGP 4x

Naming

In contrast to its predecessor and successors, the GeForce 3 family consists of very few chips and only covers one segment, namely the high-end segment. While the first graphics chip, GeForce3, was given no name, this model was split a little later into two models (Ti 200 and Ti 500), which are a little slower and a little faster than the original version. The only difference lies in the speed of the memory and the GPU .

Model data

model Official
launch
Graphics processor (GPU) Graphics memory
Type Clock rate
(MHz)
Fill rate
( MT / s)
Size
( MB )
Clock rate
(MHz)
Type Storage
interface
Bandwidth
( GB / s)
GeForce3 Feb. 27, 2001 NV20 200 1600 064 230 GDR 128 bit 7.4
GeForce3 Ti 200 0Oct. 1, 2001 NV20 175 1400 064
128
200 GDR 128 bit 6.4
GeForce3 Ti 500 0Oct. 1, 2001 NV20 240 1920 064
128
250 GDR 128 bit 8.0

See also