GEFORCE4 TI4600 PERFORMANCE

"In this article we test the Nvidia GeForce4 Ti4600 using 1944 Battle of the Bulge, Aurora Watching, Cronicles of Riddick, Comanche4, Codename Panzers Phase Two, Delta Force Extreme, Earth 2160, Far Cry, GT Legends, King Kong, Lego Star Wars, Quake 3 Arena, Quake 4, Scooter War3z, Scrapland, Serious Sam 2, Trackmania Sunrise, Tribes Vengeance, Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2004, Warhammer Dawn of War, World Racing 2 and Xpand Rally."

The Nvidia GeForce4 Ti chipset delivers the most radically immerse graphic environments ever seen on a desktop PC. Groundbreaking features including the advanced nfiniteFX II engine, superior Accuview Antialiasing techniques and flexible nView multi-display technology, deliver screaming performance and fierce processing power - for truly unmatched ferocious graphics power.

The GeForce4 family of GPUs includes the GeForce4 Ti and GeForce4 MX GPUs. In addition to unmatched performance, the GeForce4 family of GPUs adds innovative new features, including:

nView™, NVIDIA’s multi-display technology that supports arrangements of analog monitors and digital flat panel displays that can be combined to drastically increase the users desktop.

Lightspeed Memory Architecture II (LMA II), NVIDIA’s 128-bit memory interface featuring a crossbar design for unsurpassed graphics processing power.

Accuview Antialiasing™ (AA), delivering high-resolution, high-performance, and unbeatable visual quality at blistering frame rates.

CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK ESCAPE FROM BUTCHER BAY 26 22 18 9 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 BENCHMARK SETTINGS Fullscreen Enabled Texture Quality Maximum Model Shadows Enabled Anisotropy Maximum Shadermode Auto Vertical Sync Disabled COMMENT - "Chronicles of Riddick is a very demanding game especially with shadows enabled, as previously shown shadows are something which results in a large performance decrease for the GeForce4 Ti4600 and it is unplayable at all resolutions."

COMANCHE 4 60 58 54 47 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 BENCHMARK SETTINGS Fullscreen Enabled 32Bit Colour Depth Anti-Aliasing Disabled Terrain Detail High Object Detail High Texture Quality High Water Quality High Shadows High Particle Density High COMMENT - "Comanche4 is a fairly old game which is quite cpu limited with modern video cards which is why the GeForce4 Ti4600 has no problems delivering playable performance at all of the resolutions tested."

CODENAME PANZERS PHASE TWO LOW QUALITY 56 44 43 36 MEDIUM QUALITY 32 27 20 16 HIGH QUALITY 22 17 12 6 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 COMMENT - "Once again we see the negative impact shadows has on the GeForce4 Ti4600, it is playable using low quality settings upto 1280x1024. However when shadows are enabled with medium and high quality this game becomes unplayable on the GeForce4 Ti4600." BENCHMARK SETTINGS "Tunis" Level 32bit Color Depth Default Refresh Rate Vsync Disabled LOW QUALITY Anti-Aliasing Disabled Shadows Disabled Texture Detail Low Bilinear MEDIUM QUALITY Anti-Aliasing 2x Shadows Normal Texture Detail Low Trilinear HIGH QUALITY Anti-Aliasing 4x Shadows Self Texture Detail High Anisotropic