NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

by Anand Lal Shimpi on December 25, 1999 7:23 PM EST

The Test

Windows 98 SE Test System

Hardware

CPU(s)

Intel Pentium III 700
Intel Pentium III 600E
Intel Pentium III 450

Intel Celeron 500
Intel Celeron 366
AMD Athlon 700
Motherboard(s) ABIT BX6 R2 ABIT BX6 R2 + "Sloket" Adapter Gigabyte GA-7IX
Memory

128MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM

Hard Drive

IBM Deskstar 22GXP 22GB Ultra ATA 66 HDD

CDROM

Phillips 48X

Video Card(s)

3dfx Voodoo3 2000 16MB (default clock - 143/143)
3dfx Voodoo3 3000 16MB (default clock - 166/166)
3dfx Voodoo3 3500 16MB (default clock - 183/183)
ATI Rage Fury Pro 32MB (default clock - 125/143)
ATI Rage Fury MAXX 64MB (default clock - 125/143)
Diamond Viper II Z200 Savage 2000 (default clock - 125/155)
Matrox Millennium G400 MAX 32MB (default clock - 166/200)
NVIDIA GeForce 256 32MB SDR (default clock - 120/166)
NVIDIA GeForce 256 32MB DDR (default clock - 120/150 DDR)
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 32MB (default clock - 125/150)
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Ultra 32MB (default clock - 150/183)

Ethernet

Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter

Software

Operating System

Windows 98 SE

Video Drivers

3dfx Voodoo3 - 1.03.04

ATI Rage Fury Pro - Retail Shipping Drivers (NA for download)

ATI Rage Fury MAXX - Retail Shipping Drivers (NA for download)

Diamond Viper II Z200 Savage 2000 - 1.09 (NA for download)

Matrox Millennium G400 - 5.41.008

NVIDIA GeForce 256 - Detonator 3.65

NVIDIA Riva TNT2 - Detonator 3.65

Benchmarking Applications

Gaming

idSoftware Quake III Arena demo001.dm3
GT Interactive Unreal Tournament 4.00 UTbench.dem

The Specs Pentium III 700 - Quake III Arena
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  • YsGrandi - Tuesday, August 11, 2020 - link

    its 2020 and intel still stuck with skylake
  • pavag - Sunday, July 3, 2016 - link

    So, Anand was ranting about a top GPU from nvidia costing only 300$
  • artk2219 - Thursday, April 13, 2017 - link

    Hey man, thats like $432.87 as of January 2017 or pretty much the same, $428.93 in your time of July 2016 time traveler. Either way, Vega needs to put the smack down on Nvidias pricing, and you can stick that in your bucket young whipper snappers of the future. :D
  • artk2219 - Sunday, November 18, 2018 - link

    Sadly Vega didn't do anything, here's looking at you Navi. Nvidia needs a smack down on their pricing more than ever.
  • Doogiehowser99 - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link

    Everyone would kill for Pascal pricing in 2021. What would 2000 Anandtech say about Nvidia flagship GPUs going for $2000. That's way above inflation. Lol
  • CHADD44 - Tuesday, February 15, 2022 - link

    2022 and this still dominates gpu market

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