MSI Geforce 4 Ti4600 Review - PAGE 1
Neumann Lim - Friday, June 7th, 2002
MSI is a well
known motherboard manufacturer and they have packaged together the newest nVidia
based graphics card, the Geforce4 Ti4600.
Today, we pit MSIs
Geforce4 Ti4600-VTD against the High-end ATI Radeon 8500. Now, a quick look at
the Ti4600-VTD.
Features Comparison
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.
Supports super
high resolution graphics modes
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
with85Hz
1920x1200 8/16/32
bit colors with75Hz
2048x1536 8/16/32 bit colors
with60Hz
GEFORCE 4 TECHNOLOGY
From my previous
test with the Geforce3, I found out that the image quality from the GeForce3 is
not as sharp as the Radeon 8500. The technology behind ATIs enhanced image
performance is TRUFORM. However, nVidia has there own technology that will
challenge ATI called Accuview Anti-Antialiasing.
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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