Graphics Card Round up Based On The Geforce2 GTS Chipset

It was back in April that Nvidia introduced their GeForce2 GTS chip set. The GeForce2 GTS (GF2 hereafter) sure kicked it’s competition right off the field and even the new Voodoo5 5500 is not a threat to the GF2 cards. The ELSA GLADIAC 32 MB GF2 and the Asus V7700 were the first cards based on Nvidia’s GF2 GPU to enter the market, that was back in April and we had both these hot shots at our lab to see for ourselves.

Now with the 2nd generation of GF2 cards with 64MB’s of memory swarming the market (not mentioning the Ultra) and every graphics manufacturer having a slightly different version of this clone how does one decide what card to buy?

So, what we have here is a comparison of four top of the range GF2 cards with 64Megabytes of RAM, put head to head against each other to make your choice in selection a wheeey bit easier.

Let me introduce you to the four contenders technoyard got together for this battle of the giants.

1. 3D Prophet II GTS 64MB
2. Siluro GF256 GTS 64MB
3. Inno3D Tornado GeForce2 GTS 64MB
4. Elsa Gladiac 64MB GeForce2 GTS

It should now be clear to you what we plan to achieve in this article. So let’s hope that at the end of this lengthy article, we’ll be able to point a finger at a particular board and say, THIS IS THE WINNER.

We somehow managed to get our hands into another GF2 GTS article didn’t we? I could again delve into the architecture and features of the GF2 GTS GPU, but that will surely clog my mail account with all that ‘fan’ mail and I don’t plan on spending this weekend downloading mail!!(* Grin*)

Ok, so this is how the flow will be. I’ll first introduce each board and give an overview of its special features, changes from the Nvidia reference design, special cooling solutions if any, overclocking capabilities etc and based on these findings, finally decide which board should be crowned the winner.