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To
say the video card market is saturated with
GeForce 2 powered video cards right now would be
an understatement.
With nVidia being the last of the major
chip vendors, they are the only real option for
companies like Elsa, Creative Labs and others if
they want to compete in the hot 3D card arena.
With multiple companies trying to compete
against each other with essentially the same
product, deciding which one to spend your hard
earned money on is tough.
Today
we?re taking a look at Elsa?s offering in the
64MB GeForce market, the Gladiac 64.
This isn?t one of the hot new GeForce 2
Ultras that are about to hit the market, but it is
definitely not a slouch in the performance
department. However,
the performance of the card is its only defining
factor. You won?t find too
many ?bells and whistles? here?
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| Specifications
Of The Elsa Gladiac 64MB DDR |
| It's
a reference design, but who cares?!? |
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- NVIDIA
GeForce2 GTS GPU
- High-Performance
DDR memory
- AGP 4X
with Fast Writes
- 32-bit
color ARGB with destination alpha
- Cube
environment mapping and Anisotropic
texture filtering
- Optimized
Direct3D and OpenGL acceleration
- Complete
DirectX 7, DirectX 6 and DirectX 5
support
- Advanced
support for DirectDraw
- Hardware
color space conversion (YUV 4:2:2 and
4:2:0)
- 5-tap
horizontal by 3-tap vertical filtering
- 8:1
upscaling and downscaling
- Per-pixel
color keying
- Multiple
video windows with hardware color space
conversion and filtering
- DVD
sub-picture alpha blended compositing
- Video
acceleration for DirectShow, MPEG-1,
MPEG-2,and Indeo
- RAMDAC/Pixel
Cycle: 350 MHz
- Memory:
32MB or 64MB DDR RAM
- Bus
Systems: AGP 2x/4x (including fast
writes and execute mode) or PCI
- Standards:
DPMS, DDC2B, Plug & Play
- Optional
Video Module: 1x Video-In & 1x
Video-Out
- BIOS: VESA
BIOS 3.0 support
- API
Support: DirectX 6, DirectX 7, OpenGL
- Internal/Memory
Interface Clock: 200MHz/166MHz
- Horizontal
SYNC Signals: 31.5Hz - 108.5Hz
- Vertical
Refresh Rate: 60Hz - 200Hz
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The
specification list reads like any other GeForce 2
based reference design but there?s got to be
something to make this card stand out, right?
There sure is! We?ll get to that a
little later!
The
memory that came installed on the Gladiac 64 is
some high quality Hyundai 6NS DDR RAM.
Besides
the amount of memory, you?ll also notice that
64MB GeForce 2?s come equipped with DDR SDRAM as
opposed to the SGRAM installed on just about all
32MB models.
SGRAM offers slightly higher performance at
similar clock speeds to SDRAM, so in some
situations the 32MB GeForce 2s will actually
outperform their 64MB counterparts.
64MB SGRAM variations would be ideal but at
the present time it is cost prohibitive.
Installation,
Drivers, Visuals
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