Digit-Life has overclocked a GeForce 3 video card to 300/295 (590) MHz
As you already know, the NVIDIA GeForce3 has a core frequency equal to 200 MHz and is equipped with a memory working at 230 (460) MHz. At the expense of its architecture, the video cards on this processor show an excellent speed in 32-bit color outscoring their competitors based on the GeForce2 Ultra, whose core works at 250 MHz.Read more
Despite the 0.15 micron fab process of the GF3, this GPU has 57 million transistors and is very complicated in its architecture, and a large cache inside the chip lowers the potential in increasing the clock speed. But does it make sense to lift it? Yes, it does! In the articles above it is shown that with some functions enabled the performance falls by a great margin, especially in case of the simultaneous use of anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing. That is why we are greatly concerned about the possibilities to increase the frequency, i.e. the speed of the chipset and the memory.
