Elsa Gladiac 721TV-Out GeForce3 Ti200

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 Benchmarks :

3DMark 2001:

If you haven't heard of 3DMark by now, chances are these numbers mean nothing to you anyway. Just for the hell of it I ran at both the default resolution and also at 1280x1024 and using hardware T+L and software T+L (handled by the CPU). I was curious to see just how close the mighty XP2000+ was able to come to matching the Ti200's specific T+L unit. The results speak for them selves.

Yes, even the mighty number crunching power of the XP2000+ is no match for NVIDIA's hardware T+L engine. The fact that the 721 was able to notch up a score of 7140 at stock settings again point to just what incredible value for money this graphics card is. My biggest concern if I was NVIDIA would be just how well the Ti200 GPU compares to the Ti500 GPU, and though the hardened tech junkie is unlikely to settle for anything less than the fastest on the market, other mere mortals will find that the Ti200 is genuinely a valid alternative and not a partially disabled poor alternative.

To put these numbers in perspective, here they are compared to those from the Creative Ti500 and Elsa 921DVI.

Trailing the pack, but doing it with its head held high. I'll leave it to you to calculate the bang per buck factor.

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