Part Three: nVidia's Geforce 4 MX440
The following information is contained in our Geforce
4 quick reference overview. If you are in any doubt over the
various cards features then be sure to check out this handy
resource.
The GeForce 4 MX series :
• nView display technology
° nView delivers the maximum flexibility and control in display
options
° Allows for multiple configurations of CRTs and digital flat
panels
° Multi-desktop integration
° Advanced window management
° Individual application control
• Lightspeed Memory Architecture (LMA) II
technology radically boosts memory efficiency
° 128-bit DDR
° Z-occlusion culling
° Fast Z-clear
° MX memory crossbar architecture
° Auto precharge
• Accuview—high-resolution antialiasing
° Accuview technology delivers highest
performance and no-penalty Quincunx
AA quality
° Dedicated multisample Accuview
hardware ensures rock-solid
compatibility
° New sub pixel sample locations provide improved AA quality
° High quality 4XS mode for incredible image quality
• Integrated hardware transform and lighting engines
° 256-bit graphics engine
° 4 texture-mapped, filtered, lit texels per clock cycle
° 32-bit color, Z/stencil buffering
° Advanced per-pixel lighting, texturing, and shading
° Cube environment mapping
° DirectX® and S3 texture compression
• NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer (NSR)
• High performance 256-bit 2D rendering engine
° Optimized for 32-, 24-, 16-, 15-, and 8bpp modes
° True color hardware cursor with alpha
° Multibuffering (double, triple, quad) for smooth animation
and video playback
• Video Processing Engine (VPE) delivers the highest quality
video and mulimedia capabilities
° Integrated TV encoder at 1024x768 resolution
° Integrated full hardware MPEG-2 decoder
° Motion compensation and IDCT
° HDTV ready
° Independent hardware color controls for video overlays
° Hardware color space conversion (YUV 4:2:2 and 4:2:0)
° 5-tap horizontal and 3-tap vertical filtering
° 8:1 up/down scaling
° Per pixel color keying
° DVD sub-picture alpha-blended 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
The GeForce 4 GPU - MX Series (NV17):
eVGA.com's GF4 MX 440
|
e-Geforce 4 MX
440
|
270MHz
|
400MHz
(DDR)
|
5.0ns
|
64MB DDR SDRAM
|
128
|
540
|
6.4GB/sec
|
$179 |
For a more detailed overview please look at our GF4
reference card review here.
That is the obligatory stats' out of the way, lets investigate
that strange HSF unit that eVGA.com have used...
