nVidia Videocard hierarchy............Anyone care to guess.

[coomarlin]

I'm by no means and expert, but from my experience the hierarchy of nVidia videocards from a performance stand point rank as follows (fast to slow):

Geforce 3 Ti 500
Geforce 3
Geforce 3 Ti 200
Geforce 2 Ultra
Geforce 2 Ti 200
Geforce 2 Pro
Geforce 2 GTS
Geforce 2 MX 400
Geforce 1 DDR
Geforce 2 MX
Geforce 2 MX 200

We know the Geforce 4 will be at the top of the chart, but where will slower variants of the chip be and where will the Geforce 4 MX fit into that table? It looks like nVidia is making a Geforce 4 MX that is clocked at 300. Will it have at least Geforce 2 Pro performance? I'm just curious. Maybe you guys can better make some educated guesses.

 

[Vegito]

that looks right, I just dont know about the Ti series...

I just got a my hand on a bunch of georce 2 gts video card with 6ns ram... i'm glad it's a little better than the mx
Are all 2 GTS ddr or some are sdr ? If I leave the ram marking, can people tell ?

 

[Quetzalboat]

Dear Forcesho,

I think GeForce2 GTS'es are always DDR, because the SDR version of GeForce2 are the MX series

 

[Vegito]

Oh i c.. this is my first nvidia product... i'm a matrox g400 user.... games just can't cut it on the g400 anymore...

 

[Rand]

<< Dear Forcesho,

I think GeForce2 GTS'es are always DDR, because the SDR version of GeForce2 are the MX series >>



As you said, all GF2 GTS's utilize DDR SDRAM.
There are a handful of GF2 MX cards that also utilize DDR SDRAM, but those run off a 64bit memory bus rather then the 128bit memory bus utilized on the SDR variants, so they are in actuality slightly slower then the SDR MX cards.

The performance hierarchy of nVidia's GeForce boards are as follows:

GeForce2 MX200
GeForce1 SDR
GeForce2 MX
GeForce2 MX400
GeForce1 DDR
GeForce2 GTS-V
GeForce2 GTS
GeForce2 Pro
GeForce2 Ti-VX
GeForce2 Ti
GeForce2 Ultra
GeForce3 Ti200
GeForce3
GeForce3 Ti500

 

[merlocka]

Don't forget those golden (or molden) oldies...

I borrowed the Geforce lineup from Rand

Vanta LT
Vanta
TnT2 M64
TnT
TnT2
TnT2 Pro
TnT2 Ultra
GeForce2 MX200
GeForce1 SDR
GeForce2 MX
GeForce2 MX400
GeForce1 DDR
GeForce2 GTS-V
GeForce2 GTS
GeForce2 Pro
GeForce2 Ti-VX
GeForce2 Ti
GeForce2 Ultra
GeForce3 Ti200
GeForce3
GeForce3 Ti500

 

[Cosmic_Horror]

i thought the tnt2m64 was a touch faster than the original tnt?

 

[Rand]

<< i thought the tnt2m64 was a touch faster than the original tnt? >>



In some situations yes. The TNT2 M64 was a more powerful chip then that of the TNT1, but in many cases it was so far held back from it's potential that the older TNT1 managed to outperform it.

In resolutions like 640x480x16bpp, 640x480x32bpp, 800x600x16bpp and the like the TNT2 M64 was definitely a higher performance card then the classic TNT1 as memory bandwidth requirements were low enough that the TNT2 M64's SDR 64bit memory bus didnt penialize it too much and the chips pure power showed through. In higher resolutions though the TNT2 M64 was held back from it's potential by it's low memory bandwidth, and the weaker TNT1 reigned supreme as it was able to offer enough memory bandwdith to fully utilize the TNT1 chip.