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The new geforce to hit the market is the Ti range of cards. There are 3 cards that Nvidia have launched in this range. They are,
The "Ti" stands for Titanium. The differences in these cards and the previous geforce 2 and 3 range are small. The technologies appear to be the same or at least very similar. A list of of the chipset features are below. The main differences are the Clock speed and the memory speed.
From the original Geforce 3 HRAA Next on the list of Features is the HRAA - High resolution Anti-Aliasing featuring the new Quincunx AA. with entering into too much detail (as there are many sites out there with massive detail) the Quincunx design is said to give an 4x AA performance with only the performance hit of 2x AA. The idea is that this way of Anti-Aliasing "looks" at the surrounding pixels and decides (I use that term loosely) what would be the best way of removing the jagged edges. In reality the speed drop in terms of frame rates is only that of a 2x AA, the quality however is slightly blurry compared with that of a 4x AA. Looking at it though you can only tell this by comparing it to a 4x AA image. nFinite FX The nFinite FX engine is the heart and soul of the Geforce 3, as previously stated it allows programmers more freedom to create more special effects. to Do this the Geforce 3 has a programmable vertex shader and a programmable Pixel shader. Nvidia is offering example to programmers of how to use this new engine but the real beauty in it is once learned the programmers will design there own special FX and will likely amaze us all. Nvidia learned from its mistake with the Geforce original where programmers eventually gave up writing special code to keep up with the very first GPU. wasted technology, but no longer! Chipset Details of the Geforce 3 Ti 500
Without any extra cost to the consumer from the original Geforce 3, the Geforce 3 Ti 500 offers increased memory and clock speed as well as memory bandwidth. This all leads to increased performance. Still an expensive card though and only for the true hardcore gamers or people with money to burn. Other options in this range may prove to be more cost effective. try looking at the Ti 200 and the Geforce 2 Ti cards to see if they suit you price to performance needs a little better. This card was designed to go head to head with the Radeon 8500. ATI had decided to delay to the release of the Radeon 8500 to try and bump up its specs a little. The Radeon has a core speed and a memory speed of 275Mhz. Pretty nippy specially when you consider the that the memory is DDR and so effectively 550Mhz. However real tests must of showed something that ATI didn't like in comparison to the Geforce 3 Ti 500. otherwise they would of released the card. The public seem to be coming to terms with the fact that the numbers don't mean everything. A faster clock speed does not mean faster performance in every case. The technology the card possesses and the support for that technology is just as important and the cards raw grunt. With exactly the same features as the original Geforce 3 for what should be the same price, the choice is simple between the two. The is a merely refreshed Geforce 3 for the market but well worth a look. Its not new but it is better. Product Specs.
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