OCZ Titan 3 Specs:
- NVIDIA GeForce 3 GPU @ 215MHz
- 64-MB DDR SDRAM, access time 3.8 ns, effectively at 515MHz
- 350 MHz RAMDAC
- Lightspeed Memory Architecture
- High-Performance Hardware Anti-Aliasing Featuring Quincunx AA mode
- Nfinite FX Engine
- AGP 4X/2X, AGP texturing and Fast Write supports
- Microsoft DirectX 8 and OpenGL 1.2 Optimizations and support
- Programmable Vertex Shader
- On-board DVI-I support, TV-Out, and VGA connectors
- Second Generation Integrated Transform and Lighting Engines
- Drivers Support for Win 9X, Win ME, Win NT4, Win2K
- OCZ-customized NVMax Software for Tweaking and Overclocking
- Blue ORB HSF for GPU Cooling and copper heatsinks for memory
- PowerDVD Software
Test System:
- Processor: Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz
- Motherboard/Chipset: Intel 850 Chipset/Motherboard (Dell OEM)
- IDE Interface: Ultra ATA/100
- Memory: 256MB PC800 RDRAM
- HD: Maxtor 7200RPM DMA/100
- IDE Interface: Ultra ATA/100
- Video: OCZ Titan 3 @ 215/515, OCZ Titan 3 @ 240/555, Leadtek Winfast TDR GeForce 3 @ 200/460 (Reference-design), Leadtek Winfast TDR GeForce 3 @ 215/515, Leadtek Winfast 32 MB GTS
- All cards tested using NVIDIA Detonator 3 12.41 Reference Drivers
- CD/DVD: NEC 16x DVD-ROM
- Sound: SB Live! 1024 Sound
- Windows 98 Second Edition
- Power Supply: 330 Watt
| Card | Score |
| OCZ Titan 3 @ 215/515 | 6043 |
| Leadtek GF3 @ 215/515 | 6038 |
| Leadtek GF3 @ 200/460 | 5700 |
| 32MB GTS: | 3280 |
3DMark2001, of course, is an old standby in revieiwing and benchmarking video cards. And particularly in cases such as this, where all tested cards use technology from a single family, it serves as a good means of measuring relative performance.
The OCZ Titan 3, at its default setting of 215/515, beat the Leadtek GF3 clocked at 200/460; but, of course, we knew it would. So to help level the playing field a bit, I upped the speed on the Leadtek board to 215/515 and found it was a much closer game at that point. But as you'll find, below, in the section on overclocking, the appeal of the Titan 3 is its ability to overclock well beyond what you can with a reference-design board like the Leadtek.
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