Hercules 3D Prophet II GTS
Guillemot
sells their new GeForce2 card 3D Prophet II GTS under the label of Hercules. Hercules was
bought by Guillemot last year. The card design is an own development done by Hercules. The
card runs with the default NVIDIA specs of 200Mhz core and 333MHz (DDR) memclock. A short
look on the card let´s you anticipate for what kind of users it was made: hardcore gamers
and overclocking fans! Besides of a powerfull fan Hercules has equipped the memory chips
on the card with heatsinks. The board itself has a nice turquoise color - another point
that differs the card from the competitors. Apple was first to design computerhardware in
an aesthetical way and now Hercules shows us that a graphics card can look nice.
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The front: Own design with a good
cooling solution |
The Back: on the top right you
can see the TV-Out chip |
Besides to many GF2 competitiors Hercules placed the TV-Out
chip (Conexant Bt869KRF) onboard by default without an upgrade option. The voltage
regulators is made more complex than on other GeForce2 cards: A tribute to overclockers.
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| Own card layout |
TV-Out connector |
complex power regulation |
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| Cooled memory |
Conexant Bt869KRF |
Cooling even on the back |
Besides of the 32MB version of
the Prophet II GTS (as shown here) Hercules also wants to release a 64MB version. The
cards primarily were equipped with a DVI connector but the final cards now are sold
without it. The Softwarebundle that comes with the cards is the DVD Player Power DVD which
uses the Hardware DVD acceleration of the GeForce2 GTS chip. There´s no information about
PCI versions yet.
The price of the card in Germany was reduced
from DM 849,- to DM 799,- - The same price as Creative´s GeForce2 board.
| Tech-specs: Architekture-Highlights
- NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer (NSR)
- T&L-Engines der zweiten Generation
- Double Data Rate (DDR)-RAM
- DirectX-Texture-Kompression
- 1,6 Gigatexel Fillrate
- 25 Millionen triangles/s through T&L- and Setup-Engines
- 5,3 GB/s Memorybandwith
- NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture™
- First graphicschip with fully integrated ///1.2 compliant
Professional OpenGL-Support for all Windows-Operation Systems and Linux
Specs
- 256-Bit-architecture
- AGP 1x-, 2x- and 4x-Support, including Fast Write- and Execute-Mode
- Max 3D/2D-resolution of 2048 x 1536 at 75 Hz
- Memoryconfigurations with up to 128 MB SDR or DDR SDRAM/SGRAM
- NTSC/PAL TV-Output: Composite or S-VHS
3D-Features
- Hardwarebased High-Performance-Anti-Aliasing
- Optimized for DirectX- und OpenGL-acceleration
- Per clock rendering of 8 filtertered Pixels with Texture-Mapping and
Pointlight
- Single-Pass-Multi-Texturing
- 32-Bit-Z-/Stencil-Buffer
- Complex Texture-Filtering, including Anisotropic-Filtering
- HQ Texturing with Per-Pixel-PRespective correction and -shading
- Cube-Environment-Mapping
- Per-Pixel-Dot-Product-3-Bump-Mapping
- Per-Pixel-Lighting and -Shading
- Projective Textures
- Procedural-Texturing
- Multi-Texturing und Multi-Pass
- Texture-Modulation
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- Per-Pixel-Bump-Mapping
- Light-Mapping
- Reflection-Mapping
- Supports BRDF (Bi-Directional Reflectance Distribution)-Functions
- DX6-Texture-Kompression
- Fogging and Depth-Cueing
- Per-Vertex or Per-Pixel
2D-Features
- 256-Bit-2D-Beschleunigung
- Pipeline optimized for multiple color depths (32, 24, 16,15 and 8 Bit
per Pixel)
- True-Color-Hardwarecursor
- Multi-Buffering (Double-, Triple-, Quad-Buffering) for animationes
and Video-Playback
- X- and Y-Scaling
- Per-Pixel-Colorkeying
- Multiple Videowindows with Hardware-colorconvertion (YUV 4:2:2 und
4:2:0) and horizontal 5-Tap- and vertikal 3-Tap-Filters
- DVD-Playback with Sub-Picture-Alphablending
- Video-Acceleration of DirectShow, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and Indeo
Drivers
- Drivers for Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows NT 3.5
- Windows 95- and 98-drivers, DirectDraw-, Direct3D-, DirectVideo-,
ActiveX-Support
- OpenGL-ICD for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT and
Linux
Warranty
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