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Introduction
We've
taken a look at three other XFX cards, the MX420, the Ti4200, and the
Ti4400. The cards across the board have been phenominal - from performance,
to support, to overclocking abilities. Certainly the new line by Pine
Technologies has not only potential for market dominance in the future,
but the overall quality and performance to ensure that you're getting
the most for your gaming dollar.
This is the top of the line video card on the market today, with the most
power for the highest possible level of gaming today. This card is the
one to buy if you have the resources available - it has no equal!
Specifications
& Features
Hardware
Specs
- GPU Frequency(MHz): 300
- Graphics Core: 256-bit
- Memory Interface: 128MB
- Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec): 10.4
- Fill Rate (texels/sec.): 4.8 billion
- Operations/sec.: 1.23 Trillion
- Effective Memory Clock Rate (MHz): 650
- RAMDACs (MHz) (each have 2 RAMDAC): 350
Monitor
& Display support
- D-shell (15-pin) VGA connector
- Register compatible with VGA
- DVI-I
- TV out Module enabling big-screen gaming,
digital timeshifting VCR, and video-editing applications
Features
- nfiniteFX II Engine
- Accuview Antialiasing
- Lightspeed Memory Architecture II
- 3D Textures
- Shadow Buffers
- High-Definition Video Processor (HDVP)
- Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
- AGP 4X/2X and AGP Texturing Support
- Dual Vertex Shaders
- Highest Quality and Highest Performance Microsoft Windows
XP Support
- Lossless Z-Compression
- Microsoft DirectX 8.X and OpenGL 1.3 Optimizations and
Support
Quad Cache
- TV-Out and Video Modules
- World's Fastest DDR Memory Interface
- Z-Correct Bump Mapping
Warranty
Retail
Bundle
Retails
packages include...
- Manual
- S-Video
Cable
- XFX
Driver CD
- PowerDVD XP 4.0
- Trial Versions of "Dronez" and "Gunlok"
Games
And for
the specifics of the XFX GeForce4 Ti4600 against some other cards...
| |
Core
Clock / RAM MHz |
Memory
Bandwidth |
Fill
rate Mpixels/sec |
Triangles
per second |
Asus GeForce2 GTS
|
200
/ 333 |
5.3
GB/s |
800 |
25
Million |
GeForce3 Ti500
|
240
/ 500 |
8.0
GB/s |
960 |
40
Million |
GeForce4 MX420
|
250
/ 332 |
2.7
GB/s |
1000 |
31
Million |
GeForce4 Ti4400
|
275
/ 555 |
8.8
GB/s |
4.4 Billion AA Samples/Sec. |
125
Million* |
| GeForce4
Ti4600 |
300 /
650 |
10.4
GB/s |
4.8 Billion
AA Samples/Sec.
|
136
Million* |
* Verticals Per Second
We
used the same system we tested the Ti4200 and Ti4400 on for this review...
Test System Specifications:
- AMD 1800+XP Processor
- ABIT KR7A Motherboard
- 512 MB RAM
- Windows XP
- DirectX 8.1
- nVidia detonator drivers, version 29.42
We used the following benchmarking utilities to the fullest:
- 3D Mark 2001 SE
- Vulpine GLmark
- Comanche 4 Benchmark Demo
- nVidia Chameleon Benchmark Utility
- Quake III
(32-bit color, everything maxed out)
There is absolutely no doubt that the Ti4600 is the most performance based
card on the market today. Add to that the brand quality that XFX has been
able to create in such a short time, and you see that this card is worth
your gaming dollar.
3DMark2001 SE SCORES
3DMark2001
SE is the latest installment in the popular 3DMark series. By combining
DirectX8.1 support with completely new graphics, it continues to provide
benchmark results to make informed hardware assessments. This is probably
the most popular benchmarking program out there, and for good reason. The
results...
Showing the breakdown on the numbers...
| |
3DMark Score |
GeForce3 Ti500
|
8135 |
GeForce4 MX420
|
3900 |
GeForce4 Ti4200
|
8558 |
GeForce4 Ti4400
|
8992 |
| XFX GeForce4 Ti4600 |
9473 |
The XFX GeForce4 Ti4600 runs a full 481 3DMark points
above its nearest competitor, the Ti4400. The improvement is consistant,
as the difference between the Ti4400 and the Ti4200 is 434 points.
Comanche 4 Benchmark Demo
Next we ran through the popular Comanche 4 Benchmark
Demo. We ran through three different runs, on 800x600, 1024x768, and 1280x1024
resolution levels. The Benchmark demo is a DirectX 8.1 benchmark that represents
a real-world gaming experience. It measures a given system's performance
in frames per second and Tris per second (higher is better).
| |
800x600 |
1024x768 |
1280x1024 |
| XFX
GF4 4600 |
31.83
FPS /
6.341M Tris Per Sec |
32.04
FPS /
6.383M Tris Per Sec |
34.06
FPS /
6.784M Tris Per Sec |
| XFX
GF4 4400 |
32.34
FPS /
6.441M Tris Per Sec |
32.02
FPS /
6.377M Tris Per Sec |
31.99
FPS /
6.373M Tris Per Sec |
| GeForce4
MX420 |
26.51
FPS /
5.250M Tris Per Sec |
22.23
FPS /
4.403M Tris Per Sec |
16.03
FPS /
3.174M Tris Per Sec |
As you
can see in this real world gaming test of a Direct X 8.1 environment,
the XFX GeForce4 Ti4600 outperforms everybody. The real performance boost
you see here is in the high resolution area - the 1280x1024 test. As you
can see the difference between the Ti4600 and the Ti4400 boils down to
6.47%.
This proves that the best application of this board is for games that
are going to be run on the highest of resolution levels. Seeing games
like Star Trek Bridge Commander, Warcraft III, and Grand Theft Auto 3
run on the highest resolution levels - 1600x1200, you can understand why
having a card that can handle the load of such high resolution levels
is so important.
Vulpine GLmark
Test
While
MadOnion (creators of 3D Mark 2001SE) specializes in DirectX benchmarks,
Vulpine has chosen to build its GLMark software package upon the powerful
OpenGL platform. The base rendering routine is a custom version of Vulpine's
next-generation game engine known as Vision. We've used this benchmark
before, as we're seeing it used more and more across the net. While a
current generation video card is recommended, this benchmark only requires
an OpenGL card with true ARB_mutlitexturing support according to the minimum
specifications. This means most cards produced since the original nVidia
TNT or 3dfx Voodoo3 should be capable of running GLMark, though do not
expect anything more than a few frames per second with such dated video
chipsets. We set the Vulpine GLMark test to an 1024x768 resolution level.
Results of the XFX GeForce4 Ti4400 tests @ 1024x768...
Just awesome
.... as you can see from the chat below comparing VLmark scores at 1024x768,
the 96.8 average FPS is pretty amazing. This is one card that just performs!
On
to Page 2 / 2 - More benchmark utilities used, how the card performs using
the latest games, and overclocking!
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