Elsa Gladiac 921DVI GeForce3 Ti500

Author : Wayne Date : 30th December 2001

3DVelocity would like to thank Elsa for their help and courtesy in providing this graphics card for review.

Performance :

Before we get in to the benchmarks, I thinks I should mention this card's 2D image quality. NVIDIA are not fabled for their 2D prowess in the same way perhaps Matrox or ATi are, but the 350MHz RAMDAC actually does a pretty good job. At resolutions up to 1600x1200 on a 21inch monitor I was generally impressed and wouldn't really put the Gladiac far behind the two companies I just mentioned.

The 350MHz RAMDAC allows for the following resolutions/refresh rates.

Resolution	refresh rates with
	256 colors (8 bit)	65K colors (16 bit)	16,7 million colors (32 bit)
2048 x 1536	60– 75	60– 75	60– 75
1900 x 1440	60– 85	60– 85	60– 85
1600 x 1200	60–120	60–120	60–100
1280 x 1024	60–170	60–170	60–150
1024 x 768	60–200	60–200	60–200
800 x 600	60–200	60–200	60–200
640 x 480	60–200	60–200	60–200

The following test rig was used for benchmarking :

Epox 8KHA+ Motherboard ( "Turbo" system performance parameters used)
AMD Athlon XP1800+
256MB Kingmax PC2100 DDR SDRAM
40GB ATA-100 HDD
Creative SoundBlaster Audigy Sound
Elsa Gladiac 921DVI Video

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