NVIDIA GeForce3: GPU Specs & Benchmarks

The GeForce3 is a graphics card by NVIDIA, built on the 150 nm process and based on the NV20 graphics processor (GPU). The video card specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.

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Graphics Processor (GPU)

GPU Name

NV20

Model number

NV20 A5

Architecture

Kelvin

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

150 nm

Transistors

57 million

Die Size

128 mm²

Graphics Card

Release Date

Feb 27th, 2001

Family

GeForce 3

Production

End-of-life

Launch Price

499 USD

Predecessor

GeForce 2

Bus Interface

AGP 4x

Memory

Memory Size

64 MB

Memory Type

DDR

Memory Bus

128 bit

Bandwidth

7.360 GB/s

Performance

Pixel fillrate

800.0 MPixel/s

Vertex fillrate

50.00 MVertices/s

Texture fillrate

1.600 GTexel/s

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock

230 MHz
460 Mbps effective

GPU Clock

200 MHz

Render Config

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

Pixel Shaders

4

Vertex Shaders

1

Board Design

Slot Width

Single-slot

Length

165 mm
6.5 inches

Thermal design power (TDP)

unknown

Suggested PSU

200 W

Display Connectors

1x VGA
1x DB13W3

Power Connectors

None

API support

DirectX

8.1

OpenGL

1.5

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

Pixel Shader

1.1

Vertex Shader

1.1