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1996-2024
by TSW
(Nikolay Tuzhilin)

Last updated: 02.01.2024

General information

3DMark 2000 results

CPU upgrade benchmark

Card specifications

General information

This videocard produced by Asustek Inc. is based on the modern and fast graphic chip (Feb`2001) GeForce2 GTS (GF2) designed by nVIDIA.

As the speed of new 3D accelerators increases also increases the 2D display quality. And if on Asus 6600 the resolution 1280x1024 is just acceptable (on 19" monitor), on Asus 7700 it is already perfectly sharp. 

Need For Speed 5 with driver 6.67 at 1024x768x32 mode gives 35-45 fps by Fraps at Duron 900 CPU and at 1024x768x16 gives 45-65 fps. Although this is not much faster then results on plain GF256 (27-34/35-45) they at least allow you to safely switch to true color and loose no speed.

GeForce2 GTS chip made by more superior technology then GeForce256, so it consumes less power, hence it must be cooler. At idle mode my Asus 7700 warms up to 47-51°C while Asus 6600 keeps about 65°C.

3DMark 2000

3D benchmark of GF2 GTS results measured by MadOnion 3D Mark 2000 1.1 compared with GF256:

Test configuration: AMD Duron 900MHz (overclocked from 700) CPU, Asus A7V (VIA KT133 based) motherboard and 256MB PC100 (tCAS=2) SDRAM memory, Fujitsu MPD3130 hard drive, OS Microsoft Windows ME.

CPU upgrade benchmark

After upgrade of CPU from AMD Duron 900 by AMD Athlon 2100+ (266MHz*13) the general speed of video system is increased:

So, in case of this card, we see average increase on all characteristics (except fill rate of cause, that depends on video memory speed and quantity of conveyers on GPU only), and the most CPU dependant is vertex shaders and geometry engine in case of low lights number.

Specifications

The following information taken from the official page.

	AGP-7700 GeForce2 GTS Pure specifications
	Graphics engine NVIDIA® GeForce2 GTS GPU
	Video Memory 32MB 332MHz DDR (166MHz x2) SGRAM
	RAMDAC Integrated 350MHz RAMDAC supporting from 640x480 up to 2048x1536 in true color
	T&L Engine 2nd Generation Transform & Lighting Engine
	Maximum Polygons Up to 25 million triangles per second at peak rates
	OpenGL Fully 1.2 Compliant OpenGL Support
	Multi-Buffering Double, triple, and quad buffering for smooth animation and vibrant playback
	Vertical refresh rate 60-240 Hz
	Bus standard Full AGP 4X/2X with Fast Writes
	Multiple Video Windows Hardware color space conversion and filtering (YUV 4:2:2 and 4:2:0)
	Optimized for 3D Acceleration With complex support for DirectX 7 features, such as multi-texturing, bump mapping, light maps, reflection maps, full scene anti-aliasing, trilinear and 8-tap anisotropic filtering (better than trilinear mipmapping)