Hercules Unveils 3D Prophet II Ultra

Hercules has a new top-performing card based off the GeForce2 Ultra processor, the 3D Prophet II Ultra. Targeted at hardcore gamers, Hercules says that their new card has cutting edge features that put it at the top of its class.

3D Prophet II Ultra is optimized to support the fastest DDR SDRAM memory available to gamers today. This new Hercules board features 64MB of RAM, a 250MHz core clock and memory clocked at 460MHz. Its new architecture delivers a 1 billion pixel-per-second fill rate, 2 billion texels per second and a high performance Transform & Lighting engine enabling 31 million polygons per second to be generated in the latest games. The 3D Prophet II Ultra architecture provides support for NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer (NSR), advanced texture compression, single pass multi-texturing, cube environment mapping, and AGP 4X with Fast Writes support.

The 3D Prophet II Ultra has Hercules' unique design including individual RAM heatsinks and special cooling fans which, combined with the new Detonator3 drivers, will allow Hercules users to experience up to 20% faster performance.

3D Prophet II Ultra will be available in September 2000 in the $500 range

3D Prophet II Ultra
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