GeForce3: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce3 sales 27 February 2001 at a recommended price of $499 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Kelvin architecture and made with 150 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 64 MB of SDR memory clocked at 0.23 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 3.68 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 4x interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 165 mm.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce3: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Kelvin (2001−2003)
GPU code name	NV20 A5
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	27 February 2001 (23 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$499	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

GeForce3's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce3's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	200 MHz	of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	57 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	of 4 nm (H100 PCIe)
Texture fill rate	1.600	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs	4	of 192 (GA100)
TMUs	8	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce3 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	AGP 4x
Length	165 mm
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce3: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	SDR
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	230 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	3.68 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce3. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

1x VGA, 1x DB13W3

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce3, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	8.0
OpenGL	1.3	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce3. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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