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MSI Geforce 4 Ti4200 Review - PAGE 1
Neumann Lim - Friday, July 12th, 2002
After massive price cuts by ATI on their Radeon line, Nvidia is forced to come up with a low cost card to market. This is where the MSI GeForce 4 Ti4200 comes in, with an estimated retail price of $150 US or $260 CDN, the Ti4200 comes with VIVO options, DVI to analog converter WinProducer, WinCoder, No One Lives Forever, Sacrifice and AquaNox.
Similar to the MSI GeForce 4 Ti4600, the Ti4200 is its little sister but no means weak in performance.
Features
(From MSIs website)
Chipset Features
The nVIDIA nfiniteFX II Engine enable a
virtually infinite number of special effects that
deliver the next leap in realism to 3D graphics
Dual programmable Vertex Shaders
Advanced programmable Pixel Shaders
nVIDIA Lightspeed Memory Architecture II
nVIDIA Accuview Antialiasing
3D Textures
Shadow Buffers
4 dual-rendering pipelines
8 texels per clock cycle
Dual cube environment mapping
128MB high-speed DDR RAM memory
High-Definition Video Processor (HDVP)
AGP 4X with Fast Writes
AGP 4X / 2X and AGP Texturing support
32-bit color with 32-bit Z/stencil buffer
Z-correct true, reflective bump mapping
High-performance 2D rendering engine
Hardware accelerated real-time shadows
True-color hardware cursor
Integrated hardware transform engine
Integrated hardware lighting engine
High-quality HDTV/DVD playback
TV-Out and Video Modules
Multibuffering (double, triple, quad) for
smooth animation and video playback
Microsoft DirectX and S3TC texture
compression
nVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
Up to 10.4 GB/sec. memory bandwidth
136 million triangles/sec. setup engine
4.8 billion AA sample/sec. fill rate
1.23 trillion operations/sec.
Compatibility
Complete Linux drivers, including full
OpenGL
Microsoft DirectX optimizations and support
Complete OpenGL 1.3 and OpenGL
support
WHQL-certified Windows XP/2000/NT/ME/
98/95
Windows XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95 display
drivers
Microsoft DirectDraw, Direct3D,
DirectVideo and DirectActiveX drivers
- OpenGL ICD for Windows XP/2000/NT/
98/95
- Complete Linux display and OpenGL
drivers support
- Fully P00, PC99 and PC99a compliant
Support operation system under Windows
XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95
Linux compatible
API support
OpenGL 1.3 and lower
Microsoft DirectX 8.1 and lower
640x480 8/16/32 bit colors
with 150Hz
800x600 8/16/32 bit colors
with 150Hz
1024x768 8/16/32
bit colors with 120Hz
1152x864 8/16/32 bit colors with
120Hz
1280x1024 8/16/32 bit
colors with 100Hz
1600x1200 8/16/32 bit
colors with 85Hz
1920x1200 8/16/32 bit
colors with 75Hz
2048x1536 8/16/32 bit
colors with 60Hz
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GeForce4 Ti4600
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GeForce4 Ti4400
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GeForce4 Ti4200 128MB
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GeForce4 Ti4200 64MB
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Chip Clock
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300 MHz
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275 MHz
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250 MHz
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250 MHz
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Memory Clock(DDR)
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650 MHz
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550 MHz
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444 MHz
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500 MHz
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Memory Bandwidth
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10,400 MB/s
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8,800 MB/s
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7,100 MB/s
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8,000 MB/s
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nfiniteFX II Engine
The NVIDIA nfiniteFX II Engine incorporates dual programmable Vertex Shaders, faster Pixel Shaders and 3D textures. The nfiniteFX II Engine gives developers the freedom to program a virtually infinite number of custom special effects to create true-to-life characters and environments.
Accuview Anti-Aliasing
The NVIDIA Accuview Antialiasing (AA) subsystem tackles difficult antialiasing problems by providing a unique and flexible technology architecture that delivers high-quality graphics at unbeatable levels of performance. For the first time, end users can choose high-resolution antialiasing as their default display mode, without suffering any performance degradation in their favorite games and applications.
nView
The nView hardware and software technology combination delivers maximum flexibility for multi-display options, and provides unprecedented end-user control of the desktop experience. nView allows end-users to select any combination of multiple displays, including digital flat panels, analog CRTs, and TVs, and to modify the display properties using an intuitive software interface.
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