Gainward/Cardexpet GeForce 3 Ti200 128MB (NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200 GPU), Power Pack Golden Sample, 4ns 128MB DDR question

[GtPrOjEcTX]

128mg!!! Anyone have this card yet.

I looked for reviews but came up empty handed. Anyone that could help?

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

If you ask me 128 MB is overkill for current games. I think there is very little going to and from the main memory through the AGP port as it is. Which explains why there are little gains between AGP 2x and AGP 4x using the same card.

-Ice

 

[VOLT]

Its just the "regular" Gainward Powerpack with an added 64mb memory. You won't have full potential use for it in a few years. Currently, most games require only 16megs, so 128 would really be an overkill

 

[JackBurton]

<< Its just the "regular" Gainward Powerpack with an added 64mb memory. You won't have full potential use for it in a few years. Currently, most games require only 16megs, so 128 would really be an overkill >>


You've got to be kidding me. What games do you play, Quake (original) at 640x480?

 

[Rand]

It's overkill, even at 1600x1200x32bpp there are only a handful of games that see any gain with 64MB of RAM rather then 32MB of RAM.
Unless your running at 1600x1200x32bpp w/ 2X FSAA I sincerely doubt you will ever see any benefit, and in most cases you won't see any gains until 4X FSAA at 1600x1200x32bpp.

Many games only use approximately 28.12MB of RAM when rendering at 1600x1200x32bpp, and less then 16MB of RAM when rendering at 1024x768x32bpp.
According to the developers of Max Payne which is one of the most graphically intensive games currently available reportedly only uses on average 9.4MB of RAM when rendering with maximum detail settings at 1024x768x32pp, with 4X FSAA this figure jumps up to an average of 37.6MB of RAM, with peaks of about 44MB.

Basically, if your playing in 1600x1200x32bpp w/2X FSAA then I can see you benefiting slightly. In 4X FSAA you should see definitive performance benefits.


FWIW, the nature demo of 3DMark 2001 actually consumes 40MB of RAM in default setting though. Mind you that's still over double what any real world games utilize at 1024x768x32bpp... but it does go to show that a few years down the road we could be using massive amounts of RAM compared to what is typically seen today.

 

[jimmygates]

I just got the card from Newegg today.


I popped the card in and loaded up Pstrip. It detects the defaut core/mem speed as 200/450. Hrm...I thought default core speed was 175/400?



I need to do a fresh format before I can run any benchmarks....sigh...



-Jimbo

 

[jimmygates]

Welp....Ran some 3Dmark2k1...


I maxed the card out at 231/515. Was hoping it would go more but I didn't expect too much out of 128MB.


at 231/515.....8309



This is on an AMD 1800+, ABIT KR7A RAID w/ 512MB DDR.


For some reason I think this score is kind of low. If there are any suggestions on how to boost my score, LMK



-Jimbo