NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS Roundup - July 2000

SUMA Platinum GeForce 2 GTS 64MB- Card Specs

Platinum GeForce 2 GTS 64MB Specifications
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Memory	64 MB Hyundai DDR SDRAM 6 ns
Cooling	Oversized Heatsink/Fan combo
Temperature	124 F
TV-Out	Not Supported
Drivers
Highest Overclock (max core)	250/415 MHz
Highest Overclock (max memory)	250/415 MHz
Overclocking Utility
SBA State	Disabled
89 MHz AGP Bus (133 MHz BX)	Pass
99 MHz AGP Bus (148 MHz BX)	Pass
Software/Gaming Bundle	None
Estimated Street Price	Not available at publication

The SUMA Platinum GeForce 2 GTS 64 MB was the only other 64 MB GeForce 2 GTS card available in time for this roundup. As we have seen with other SUMA models, retail availability in the United States is extremely poor with these cards, as they seem to target the Eastern half of the world.

The Platinum GeForce 2 GTS 64 MB features an extremely large heatsink which is in fact larger than the heatsink on the Leadtek WinFast GeForce 2 GTS. Once again we find that this massive heatsink really does not help anything temperature wise (there is only so much that a hot item can be cooled with an ambient temperature of 75 F). The Platinum GeForce 2 GTS 64 MB was able to hit the impressive 250 MHz mark, placing it up there with the 2 other card we have seen able to do this. In addition, the use of Hyundai DDR SDRAM, as seen on all other 64 MB GeForce cards, allowed for very high memory clock speeds to be reached, as Hyundai RAM has historically performed well in overclocking. With a core speed of 250 MHz and a memory speed of 415 MHz, our Platinum GeForce 2 GTS 64 MB proved to be one fast GeForce 2. The card is outfitted to take advantage of an AGP-Pro slot, however it worked fine in our standard AGP testbed.

We have yet to see how retail availability as well as price are going to factor into this card, however keep an eye out for the full card review which will include this information and more.