Visiontek GeForce 3

Visiontek GeForce3
Manufactured by: Visiontek
Price: $344
Reviewed by:
Date : June 19th 2001

Introduction

Well folks, the much awaited Geforce 3 review is finally here at Technoyard. It's been almost 4 months since NVIDIA made their announcement of the GeForce3, their Infinite Effects GPU. Just as you thought we had reached the pinnacle of graphic card technology out comes the GeForce 3, with some of the most remarkable improvements ever seen.

Much is expected from Nvidia's newest power toy the GeForce3. NVIDIA's graphics chips for some time has been leading the high end PC market for graphics with their Riva TNT, TNT 2 the G Force and then more recently with the G Force 2. No other manufacturer has been able to match the sheer power and performance of these graphics chips (Except for maybe 3DFx but they are no more) which has propelled them to the wish list of any hard core gamer. NVIDIA has been achieving such performance out of their historically by brute force techniques, by sheer transistor count & complexity rather than efficiency. Their G Force 2 & now the G Force 3 graphics chips have a higher transistor count than the Pentium III itself.

This technique worked fine but it also made their graphics chips specially their high end ones very expensive and consumed a lot of power. But when companies like ATI came up with more streamlined & worthy competitors like the Radeon which relies on efficiency & streamlining rather than the brute force of a high transistor count to achieve its performance, and which mind you came pretty close to beating the GForce 2 in certain arenas, it was time for NVIDIA to think of a different approach. The result is the G Force 3.

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