The Gigabyte GV-GF3000 64MB GeForce 3
Prepare Yourself...

By, Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta
May 15, 2001

All the features and innovations mean nothing to end-users if the GeForce 3 doesn't perform, time to put the Gigabyte GV-GF3000 through the ringer...

H.H. Test System
Onwards and Upwards...


Abit VP6 (VIA Apollo 133A) with an Intel PIII @ 1GHz

256MB of Mushkin 2-2-2 Rev. 3 RAM

IBM 30Gb ATA100 7200 RPM Hard Drive

Gigabyte GV-GF3000 64MB DDR GF3 Graphics Card

Plextor PlexWriter 12/10/32S

Plextor UltraPLEX 40

Adaptec 2940UW Pro SCSI Card

Windows Millennium

Direct X 8.0a and nVidia reference drivers V.11.01

 

Comparison cards used throughout testing:

nVidia GeForce 2 Ultra 64MB DDR RAM

 

Benchmarks With The Gigabyte GV-GF3000
DirectX & Open GL on the way...

 
We ran a large mix of benchmarks with the GV-GF3000 to show it's performance in today's games and applications, as well as tomorrow's.  In some tests we compare the GeForce 3's performance to a GeForce 2 Ultra on the exact same test-bed, using the same driver revision.

Before we get into the gaming scores, we ran MadOnion's Video 2000 to gauge the GeForce 3's DVD and video playback prowess...

VIDEO 2000

The GV-GF3000's Video 2000 score is on par with all the other members of the GeForce family.  DVD playback using both PowerDVD and WinDVD was excellent.

Next up, we ran 3D Mark 2001, also from MadOnion to test DirectX performance.  3D Mark 2001 is a DirectX 8 benchmark, testing the performance and functionality of the pixel and vertex shaders...

3D MARK 2001

Being as the GeForce 3 is the first true DirectX 8 accelerator, we can't really praise these numbers until we see what the competition has to offer.  Hopefully ATi and STM will step up soon.  What we can say is that currently no card on the market can touch these numbers at any resolution.

More Benchmarks...