nVidia's Geforce 4 Ti4200: A New Kind Of Budget?

Author : Martyn Date : 22nd April '02

...Product	Geforce 4 Ti4200
...Manufacturer	nVidia
...Supplier	nVidia / Bastion
...Price	$200 Approx'

 

 

The reference board supplied to us is very similar indeed to the Geforce 3 version. The HSF unit has reverted to a more traditional styling, although the pins are now slightly further apart than on the older GF2 Ultra and Geforce 3 chips. The 64MB version shipped with 4ns Hynix memory while has also been modified to the older TSOP form.

Underneath this HSF was the newly introduced A3 stepping of the GPU. While we are hopeful some chips will provide slightly better yields than we have seen thus far, early reports are stating that this revision is making little difference when overclocking the GPU.

We can clearly see the memory configuration used on this board, arranged four times eight, front and back, exactly what we have seen from the Radeon series in the past. This is only the reference board, thus it's worth mentioning that while it's likely, we may not see the same arrangement from nVidia's partners when these boards hit the shelves.

Another essential strategy in the fight against ATi is nVidia's newly introduced nView. nVidia's multi-monitor support. A feature they wish to use on every Geforce 4, this card was equipped with the standard monitor input, S-Video out and the DVI connection.

Here are the cards we will be using for testing the Ti4200. It's main rival the Radeon 8500 and for reference eVGA's version of the Ti4600, our current fastest test card. From this shot we can clearly see the obvious size difference between the higher spec card and the Geforce 4 Ti4200. The extra capacitors are now surplus to requirements on the lower frequency board thus reducing it's size by around two inches.

We move on toward the test setup and first round of benchmarks on page four.

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