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nVidia's
Geforce 4 Ti4200: A New Kind Of Budget?
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Author : Martyn
Date : 22nd
April '02
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3DVelocity wish to thank
Bastion for providing this card for review.
| ...Product |
Geforce
4 Ti4200 |
| ...Manufacturer |
nVidia |
| ...Supplier |
nVidia
/ Bastion |
| ...Price |
$200
Approx' |
Part Two: A Gap In The Market...
nVidia's recent market dominance has pushed ATi's GPU's into
an interesting position. While the Ti GPU's are clear market
leaders it has left a hole for ATi to position themselves
in. The R200 is without a doubt a quality product for it's
price bracket and thus nVidia needed to counter in this area.
While I enjoyed my first experiences of the GF4
MX based products, they are without any doubt, a short
term solution and serious gamers will hardly embrace the lack
of features. Thus the R8500 has found an excellent place somewhere
between the MX460 and Ti4400. What could nVidia do to plug
this hole? Enter the Ti4200, a true gamers' card but retailing
at under $200! [TBC]
The industry is excited at what this new Ti variant can offer.
Rightly so, this looks, on paper at least, to be one of the
best mainstream solutions to date. Let's take a quick look
at the specs' before we put this new card through it's paces.
Part Three: The Geforce 4 Ti4200
This section is a brief overview of the Ti4200, if you need
more information on the Geforce 4 specific features be sure
to browse our
Geforce 4 Ti4600 review as it contains a feast of information
on the Geforce 4 series.
(The Geforce 4 Ti Series)
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SPECIFICATIONS/PERFORMANCE
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GEFORCE4
Ti 4600
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GEFORCE4
Ti 4400
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GEFORCE4
Ti 4200 [128MB]
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GEFORCE4
Ti 4200 [64MB]
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| FILL
RATE (AA SAMPLE/SEC.) |
4.8
BILLION
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4.4
BILLION
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4.0
BILLION
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4.0
BILLION
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| MEMORY
BANDWIDTH |
10.4GB/SEC.
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8.8GB/SEC.
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7.1GB/SEC.
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8.0GB/SEC.
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| MAX
MEMORY |
128MB
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128MB
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128MB
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64MB
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| MEMORY
CLOCK FREQUENCY |
650MHz
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550MHz
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444MHz
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500MHz
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| GPU
CLOCK FREQUENCY |
300MHz
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275MHz
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250MHz
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250MHz
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As the table illustrates, the new Ti4200 is available
in two unique memory configurations. While one boasts a huge
128MB, it's 64MB equipped brother can lay claim to the faster
memory frequency. This tradeoff is to provide the end user with
more flexible card choices, will you opt for the apparent future
proofing a larger amount of memory seems to imply, or will you
decide upon the better quality [4ns] 64MB memory and consider the
higher frequency of greater importance? We will be focusing
on the 64MB version in this review.
We move on to page three where we can observe
the appearance of nVidia's reference design...
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