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

Author : Martyn Date : 24th April '02

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

 

 

The recently released first/third person shooter Jedi Knight II includes it's own time demo. It's a game that can really stretch even the latest systems at high resolutions so it's inclusion here is important. If you would like to benchmark your own system you will need to follow the instructions below carefully.
Firstly open the multiplayer game and press shift and ` (the usual console key) then type the following instructions.

timedemo 1 (the notice that the time demo is cheat protected is normal)
devmap ffa_bespin
disconnect
timedemo 1
demo jk2ffa

You will need to then press the console command and use page up to see your frames per second.

The shots below illustrate what settings we will be using for testing...

The results were as follows:

(Jedi Knight II: Free For All Time Demo 32bit)

JKII Free For All Time Demo	640 x 480	800 x 600	1024 x 768	1280 x 1024	1600 x 1200
e-Geforce 4 Ti4600	85.7	85.7	85.5	85.1	79.9
Geforce 4 Ti4200	84.7	84.3	82.9	76.9	73.0
Radeon 8500 Retail	83.5	81.5	81.1	75.3	54.9

(Results Expressed In Frames Per Seconds)

The two Geforce solutions seem to have a clear edge in this highly CPU intensive benchmark. All cards seem rather CPU limited at the first three resolutions but the Ti's show their high resolution dominance at 1600 x 1200. The Radeon is left behind managing a respectable fifty four frames a second but it's not enough to outpace the Ti4200.

We move on to our final benchmark on page nine, the excellent Max Payne. A game that tests your setup arguably as much as Jedi Knight II.

 

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