ASUS AGP-V3800 TVR - TNT2

I´ve been waiting for a long time. The first TNT2 that finds a way into my test system: The ASUS AGP-V3800TVR with 32MB. The card is equiped with 8 SGRAM modules with a acces time of 7ns. This may change in the final product - ASUS speaks of 6ns modules. This would be a lot better for overclocking. The cooling fan on the TNT chip shows that the card is well equiped for overclocking:

The TNT2 chip is clocked with 125MHz. The memory is running at 150MHz (This is not the #1 TNT2 card we´ll see from ASUS. This is the V3800 Deluxe with TNT2 Ultra). There is no problem to tweak the clockspeeds. There´s a seperate tool included which lets you change the clockspeeds of the card, as with the ASUS V3400.

Additional features are the 3D glassed VR-100. The connector for the glasses is included in the upper part of the card. The chips for the VR-module are included on the upper right part of card. But there´s also a version with an external module available for owners of the V3400TNT card.

Another very nice detail is the Video-IN and OUT. The video encoder chip is the Chrontel 7003B-V. A chrontel chip did allready do a very good job on the V3400. It was a lot sharper than the Brooktree 869 used on many other cards and is able to do a dual view.

A description of the videofeatures and the VR-100 3D Glasses follows soon. now I want to take a look on the performance. How fast is the lower clocked TNT2??

Let´s begin with 3DMark99 MAX - 16Bit Color depth

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