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Albatron's Geforce 4 Ti4600
Author : Martyn Date : 4th August 2002

3DVelocity wish to thank Albatron and especially Venny for providing this card for our review.

...Product Geforce 4 Ti4600
...Manufacturer Albatron
...Supplier Albatron
...Price £290 approx.

 




Part One: Introduction

Let's face it, you may not have heard of Albatron so why would you be interested in their products? Quite simply those that have had the fortune to evaluate these products have, thus far, realized that their price-performance ratio is absolutely exceptional.

So who are Albatron? Another card maker in an already saturated market? Well not quite..
The big surprise hear is their close ties with a much larger company: Gigabyte.
Basically Albatron's founder is a man named Jack Ko, a co founder of Gigabyte. Jack has made the bold move of rejecting retirement and taking over the 'Chun Yun Electronics' company, a maker of monitors until Jack intervined. Albatron was formed and are making serious moves already, they have secured 'Intel Direct Support Status' and are producing some great mainboards. If you wish to hear the word direct from Albatron then head over to this page on their web site, it certainly makes for interesting reading.
Let's check out the specs before we see just what this card has to offer...

Part Two:The Geforce 4 Ti4600

As is usual in these reviews, we are concentrating on the individual features and performance of the Albatron card, this is not another technology (p)review. Our views and analysis of the Geforce 4 range can be found within our reference board review, be sure to read that one thoroughly if you need more information on the specific features offered by a GF4 Ti4600. Here are the specs before we launch into the more Albatron specific remainder of the review.

SPECIFICATIONS/PERFORMANCE
GEFORCE4 Ti 4600
FILL RATE (AA SAMPLE/SEC.)
4.8 BILLION
TRIANGLES/SEC.
86 MILLION/SEC.
MEMORY BANDWIDTH
10.4GB/SEC.
MAX MEMORY
128MB

 

The GeForce 4 Ti series :

• nfiniteFX II Engine for full programmability
° Dual programmable Vertex Shaders
° Procedural deformations
° Programmable matrix palette skinning
° Real-time hair and fur shading
° Keyframe animation interpolation
° Morphing
° Fog effects: Radial, Elevation,
Non-linear
° Lens effects: Fish eye, Wide angle, Fresnel effects, Water refraction
° Programmable Pixel Shaders
- Phong-style lighting for per-pixel accuracy
- Dot3 bump mapping
- Anisotropic lighting
- Environmental bump mapping (EMBM)
- Procedural textures
- Per-pixel reflections
• Accuview—high-resolution antialiasing
° Accuview technology delivers highest performance and no-penalty Quincunx AA quality
° Advanced technology ensures rock-solid compatibility with all applications
° New sub pixel sample locations provide
improved AA quality
° High quality 4XS mode for incredible image quality
• nView display technology
° nView delivers the maximum flexibility and control in display options
° nView allows for one card to drive multiple displays of any type (Analog, Digital, TV)
° Allows for multiple configurations of CRTs and digital flat panels
° Multi-desktop integration

° Advanced window management
° Individual application control
• Lightspeed Memory Architecture II engine for unmatched performance
° Four independent memory controllers
° Lossless Z-compression
° Z-occlusion culling
° Fast Z-clear
° Auto-precharge
• Shadow Buffers
• Integrated hardware lighting engine

• DirectX® and S3TC® texture compression
• Dual cube environment mapping capability
° Reflection maps
° Accurate, real-time environment
reflections
• Hardware accelerated real-time shadows
• True, reflective bump mapping
° Z-correct bump mapping
° Phong-style lighting effects on bump maps with reflections
• High-performance 2D rendering engine
° Optimized for 32-, 24-, 16-, 15- and 8bpp modes
° True-color hardware cursor with alpha
° Multi-buffering (double, triple or quad) for smooth animation and video playback
• High-quality HDTV/DVD playback
• High-definition video processor (HDVP) for
full-screen, full-frame video playback of
HDTV and DVD content

° Independent hardware color controls for
video overlay
° Hardware color-space conversion
(YUV 4:2:2 and 4:2:0)
° Motion compensation

° 5-tap horizontal by 3-tap vertical
filtering
° 8:1 up/down scaling
° Per-pixel color keying
° Multiple video windows supported for CSC and filtering
° DVD sub-picture alpha-blended
° Motion adaptive deinterlacing
compositing
• Operating systems
° Windows® XP
° Windows 2000
° Windows Me
° Windows NT® (all)
° Windows 98, Windows 95
° Linux compatible
° Mac® OS compatible
• API support
° Complete DirectX® support, including
DirectX 8.1
° Full OpenGL® 1.3 support

COMPATIBILITY


• NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
• Fully compliant professional OpenGL 1.3
API with NVIDIA extensions, on all Linux
and Windows operating systems
• WHQL-certified for Windows XP, Windows
Me, Windows 2000, Windows NT, and
Windows 98
• Complete Linux XFree86 drivers
• MAC 9/X OS support

 

 

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