SUMA Platinum 64 MB GeForce

It is not often that a company makes it debut into any market with a revolutionary new product. Most of the time, especially in the computer industry, companies build off of reputation formed by making quality products that are not necessarily considered cutting edge. Besides the marketing advantages that come with having a recognized brand name, advantages are also felt on the consumer front. Due to the fact that emerging and cutting edge products often cost a good amount of money, a consumer is usually wary of spending a significant amount on a brand that might not have the well-known reputation that others have. Although not new to Asia, SUMA System Corp. is brand new to the United States market, and their product, the SUMA Platinum 64 MB GeForce, is anything but old news. How does this new comer perform in such an elite market?

To answer this question, it would be helpful to first get some background information on the 64 MB GeForce. Luckily, this information is contained in our 64 MB GeForce Review. We highly suggest you read this to get more information regarding the impact of additional memory, as well as additional information regarding the GeForce 64 in general. Once this knowledge is acquired, we can then move on into discussing the SUMA Platinum GeForce and its worthiness in the 64 MB GeForce market. Let's begin by taking a look at the product specifications.

• 2D / 3D Performance
  Next generation nVIDIA GeForce chip-set
  First-ever single chip GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)
  More enhanced 256-bit Graphics Architecture
  Up to 2048x1536 resolution, 32-bit color
  Full support for Direct X 6.x, 7.x and OpenGL 3D graphics
  Up to 128 MB Frame Buffer
  First integrated Transform and Lighting
  AGP 4x with Fast Write
  32-bit color ARGB with Destination Alpha
  32-bit Z / Stencil
  8-bit Stencil
  Cube Environment Mapping
  Anisotropic Texture Filtering
  350 MHz Palette-DAC
• Video Acceleration
  Full frame playback
  DVD and HDTV-ready motion compensation for MPEG-2 decoding
  Industry's first 5-tap horizontal by 3-tap vertical video filtering
  8:1 up and down scaling on video overlay
  Separate hue, saturation, and brightness controls for the video overlay
  Complete VIP 2.0 Video Implementation (1x-8x Host, 75 MHz, 16-bit video port)
  Video DMA for efficient VIP host operations
• OS and Driver Support
  Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95 OSR 2.1, Windows 98, OS/2, Linux, BeOS display drivers
  Complete support for DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectShow, ActiveX
  OpenGL ICD for full OpenGL
  Fully PC99 and PC99a Compliant
  
  

  Refresh Rate Support
  Resolution	Color	Max Refresh Rate (Hz)
  640 x 480	256/65K/16M	60 - 240
  800 x 600	256/65K/16M	60 - 240
  1024 x 768	256/65K	60 - 240
  1024 x 768	16M	60 - 200
  1152 x 864	256/65K	60 - 200
  1152 x 864	16M	60 - 170
  1280 x 960	256/65K	60 - 170
  1280 x 960	16M	60 - 150
  1280 x 1024	256/65K	60 - 170
  1280 x 1024	16M	60 - 150
  1600 x 900	256/65K	60 - 150
  1600 x 900	16M	60 - 120
  1600 x 1200	256/65K	60 - 120
  1600 x 1200	16M	60 - 100
  1920 x 1080	256/65K	60 - 100
  1920 x 1080	16M	60 - 85
  1920 x 1200	256/65K	60 - 100
  1920 x 1200	16M	60 - 85
  1920 x 1440	256/65K	60 - 85
  1920 x 1440	16M	60 - 75
  2048 x 1536	256/65K	60 - 75
  2048 x 1536	16M	60