User's Manual

1. NVIDIA GeForce 3 Features

SP7000 GeForce 3 AGP bus, with 64MB DDR SDRAM on Board

nfiniteFX engine for full programmability

Lightspeed Memory Architecture for unmatched performance

Surface engine for high-order surfaces and patches

Programmable Vertex Shader

- Procedural deformations - Morphing

- Programmable matrix palette skinning - Keyframe animation interpolation

- Fog effects - Lens effects

Programmable Pixel Shader

- Phong-style lighting for per-pixel accuracy - Dot3 bump mapping

- Environmental bump mapping (EMBM) - Procedural textures

- Per-pixel reflections

HRAA—high-resolution antialiasing

- Featuring Quincunx AA mode

Integrated hardware transform engine

Integrated hardware lighting engine

DirectX ® and S3TC ® texture compression

Dual cube environment mapping capability

- Reflection maps - Accurate, real-time environment reflections

Hardware accelerated real-time shadows

Performance

- 3.2 billion AA samples per second fill rate - 7.36GB/sec memory bandwidth

Lightspeed Memory Architecture amplifies memory bandwidth

True, reflective bump mapping

- Z-correct bump mapping

- Phong-style lighting effects on bump maps with reflections

High-performance 2D rendering engine

- Optimized for 32-, 24-, 16-, 15- and 8-bpp modes

- True-color hardware cursor with alpha

- Multi-buffering (double, triple or quad) for smooth animation and video playback

High-quality HDTV/DVD playback

- High-definition video processor (HDVP) for full-screen, full-frame video playback of HDTV and DVD

content

- Motion compensation

- 8:1 up/down scaling

- DVD sub-picture alpha-blended compositing

Comprehensive system interface

- AGP 4X support, including Fast Writes and Execute Mode

- NTSC or PAL TV output (optional)

- DVI 29 pin output connector, support TMDS Panellink resolution up to SXGA/UXGA and analog RGB

output (optional)

- Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 display drivers

- Windows Me, Windows 98 display drivers, DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectVideo, ActiveX

- OpenGL ICD for Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows NT, and Linux