La carte graphique Gigabyte GA-GF2000
GeForce 2 GTS 32Mb DDR

Mardi, 31 Octobre, 2000


Introduction

Gigabyte est un autre manufacturier excellent tout au autant dans la fabrication de cartes mères que de cartes graphiques dont nous avons testés plusieurs produits par le passé. Cette fois, c'est la GF2000 qui est basée sur le chipset Nvidia GeForce 2 GTS que nous avons le plaisir d'analyser pour vous.

La GF2000 dont nous apercevons la photo ci-contre, est livrée avec 32Mb de mémoire SDRAM cadencée à 166Mhz pour une fréquence effective de 333Mhz.

Utilisant le design de base Nvidia, La GF2000 ne comporte ni sortie vidéo, ni sortie S-Vidéo. C'est donc une carte graphique standard, sans extra dont toute la puissance est dévolue au traitement graphique des images.

Nous aimerions mentionner que contrairement à la plupart des manufacturiers de cartes mères fabricant aussi des cartes graphiques, Gigabyte a inclus avec la GF2000 quelques jeux et applications dont vous trouverez les détails en seconde page de cet article.

En terminant, au bas de cette page, figurent les spécifications techniques du manufacturier.

   


Suite: Les drivers

Spécifications techniques

GA-GF2000 NVIDIA Geforce2
GTS Graphics Accelerator

Gigabyte GA-GF2000 graphics accelerator, powered by NVIDIA's second-generation Geforce2 GTS graphics processors, delivers an excellent 3D quality and 2D/3D performance. With available models supporting standard video monitor and digital flat panel displays, GA-GF2000 brings an outstanding 3D performance to the high performance 3D gaming market.


Visually stunning interactive 3D
NOptimized Direct3D and OpenGL acceleration
Complete DirectX 7, DirectX 6 and DirectX 5 support
256-bit graphics engine
8 texture-mapped, filtered, lit texels per clock cycle
Single pass multi-texturing
32-bit Z/stencil buffer (floating point or integer)
OpenGL ICD for Windows R 95, Windows R 98, Windows R 2000, Anti-aliasing: full scene, order independent
32-bit ARGB rendering with destination alpha
High Quality Texture Filtering, including Anisotropic
Advanced per-pixel, perspective-correct texturing
Fog and Depth Cueing

High performance 256-bit 2D acceleration
realism to 3D gaming world. Optimized for multiple color depths including 32, 24, 16, 15, and 8-bits per pixel
True-color hardware cursor
Multi-buffering (double, triple, quad buffering) for smooth animation and video playback

High performance 256-bit 2D acceleration
Optimized for multiple color depths including 32, 24, 16, 15, and 8-bits per pixel
True-color hardware cursor
Multi-buffering (double, triple, quad buffering) for smooth animation and video playback

High quality DVD Playback
Enhanced Motion Compensation for full-screen, full-frame video playback of all DVD resolutions
Advanced support for DirectDraw
Hardware color space conversion (YUV 4:2:2 and 4:2:0) 640 x 400 8/16/32 240
5-tap horizontal by 3-tap vertical filtering
8:1 upscaling and downscaling 1024 x 768 8/16/32 200
Per-pixel color keying
Multiple video windows with hardware color space conver-sion and filtering
DVD sub-picture alpha blended compositing
Video acceleration for DirectShow, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2

Designed to WHQL compatibility standards 256-bit graphics engine
Windows R 2000, Windows R NT 4.0, Window R NT 3.5 display drivers 8 texture-mapped, filtered, lit texels per clock cycle
Windows 98 and Windows 95 display drivers, DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectVideo, ActiveX 32-bit Z/stencil buffer (floating point or integer)
OpenGL ICD for Windows R 95, Windows R 98, Windows R 2000, Windows NT 32-bit ARGB rendering with destination alpha

The world's first real-time shading GPU
Armed with NVIDIA's GeForce2 GTS, the first shading GPU,
Gigabyte GA-GF2000 graphics accelerators provide a new Shad-ing Rasterizer to raise image quality to never-before-seen heights for interactive content and allow more stunning scene realism to 3D gaming world.

2D Video Modes
Resolutions Color Depth(bpp) Refresh Rate (Hz)
640 X 400 8/16/32 240
800 X 600 8/16/32 240
960 X 720 8/16/32 200
1024 X 768 8/16/32 200
1152 X 864 8/16/32 200/200/170
1028 X 1024 8/16/32 170/170/150
1600 X 1200 8/16/32 150/150/120
1920 X 1080 8/16/32 120/120/100
1920 X 1200 8/16/32 100/100/85
2048 X 1536 8/16/32 75/75/60

*There speed settings are not guaranteed by GIGABYTE.
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