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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
TBC |
Part Five: The Test Setup
The setup used for these benchmarks: -
nVidia's
Geforce 4 Ti4200 reference board. (250MHz core / 500MHZ effective
memory, using nVidia's Det. 28.32 drivers.)
eVGA's e-Geforce
4 Ti4600*. (300MHz core / 700MHz
effective memory: Ltd. edition preorder frequencies. Using eVGA
provided Det. 27.42 drivers)
ATi's Radeon
8500 Retail Edition. (275MHz core / 550MHz effective memory,
using beta 6052 Win XP drivers)
AMD Athlon
XP 2100+ (1.73GHz)
Abit KR7a
RAID (VIA KT266A)
512MB Micron
Cas 2 PC2100
45GB IBM ATA
100
Windows XP Pro
- Notes On Testing
* The eVGA card is
using a different set of drivers, it's inclusion is only for
high end comparison and attempts to illustrate the performance
of a Ti4600 rather than serve as an accurate representation
between the two nV based cards. Rather, the comparison between
the Ti4200 and the 8500 is the important one. The only supported
driver release to date for the Ti4200's are the 28.32 versions.
The Radeon doesn't have any LOD settings in it's
drivers, thus the cards are set to best image quality to match
the quality of the Radeon and ensure a 'level playing field'.
Benchmarks: -
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Benchmark
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Optimisation
/ Explanation
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Quake 3
Arena Time Demo 1
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Open GL Gaming
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Quake 3
Arena Time Demo 1
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Open GL Gaming
[4XAA]
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3DMark 2000 v.1.1
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Direct 3D DX7
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3DMark 2001 'SE'
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Direct 3D DX8.1
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Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast Free
For All Demo
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'Real World'
Gaming D3D DX8
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Max Payne v.1.5 'Shooting Alex' Demo
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'Real World'
Gaming DX8
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RTCW v.1.0 'Checkpoint Multiplayer'
Demo
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'Real World'
Gaming Open GL
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Part Six: Open GL
We start with Quake 3 Arena, a benchmark which
we have seen many times before. nVidia seems to have the slight
Open GL advantage of late, will this trend continue here..?
(Quake 3 Arena Time
Demo 1, Highest Quality)
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Quake 3 Arena
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640 x 480
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800 x 600
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1024 x 768
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1280 x 1024
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1600 x 1200
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e-Geforce 4 Ti4600
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217.8
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216.4
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210.5
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186.1
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149.6
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Geforce 4 Ti4200
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223.6
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220.7
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205.5
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161.7
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119.0
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Radeon 8500 Retail
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216.3
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214.2
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193.3
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144.7
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101.6
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(Results Expressed In Frames Per/s)
An excellent start for the Ti4200. At higher resolutions
the Ti starts to surpass the Radeon's output and maintains a
much higher framerate. All three cards seem rather CPU limited
at the lower resolutions as they produce very similar results.
The slightly higher figures from the Ti4200 when compared to
the Ti4600 is without question a driver difference and as we
mentioned above, the Ti4600's inclusion is merely to illustrate
the expected performance of a high end card at higher resolutions.
The Open GL benchies are continued on page five...
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