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Besides all the visible eye candy created with the RAM heatsinks and blue PCB, the 3D Prophet II GTS closely resembles the reference design for the GeForce 2 GTS with one noteworthy exception: the use of DDR SDRAM. Every single 32 MB DDR GeForce line card we have seen in the lab has used Infineon SGRAM chips for storage. However, just as we saw on the 64 MB GeForce, the 3D Prophet II GTS 64MB uses Hyundai 6 ns DDR SDRAM chips to power the memory subsystem. It is well known that SGRAM chips perform slightly better in video cards, so why do the 64 MB cards opt for SDRAM? Well, it seems that 64 MB card designers have no other choice. The current memory that the only manufacturer of DDR SGRAM chips for use in video cards, Infineon, is currently making are not high enough density to pack 64 MB onto a single card. With this limitation, Guillemot/Hercules was forced to choose the slower performing DDR SDRAM chips to power the 3D Prophet II GTS 64MB.
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