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MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200 REVIEW

"Today we are reviewing the MSI GEFORCE TI4200 which uses the mainstream GeForce TI4200 GPU from Nvidia with all of the latest features like nfiniteFX II Engine and AccuView Antialiasing. The MSI GEFORCE TI4200 is the updated AGP 8x version of the TI4200."

MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200

THE MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200 INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING FEATURES:-

THE NVIDIA NFINITEFX™ II ENGINE ENABLE A VIRTUALLY INFINITE NUMBER OF SPECIAL EFFECTS THAT DELIVER THE NEXT LEAP IN REALISM TO 3D GRAPHICS!

Dual programmable Vertex Shaders.
Advanced programmable Pixel Shaders.
nVIDIA Lightspeed Memory Architecture™ 2.
nVIDIA Accuview™ Antialiasing.
3D Textures and Shadow Buffers.
4 dual-rendering pipelines.
8 texels per clock cycle.
Dual cube environment mapping.
High-Definition Video Processor (HDVP)
AGP 8X / 4X with Fast Writes.
AGP 8X / 4X and AGP Texturing support.
32-bit color with 32-bit Z/stencil buffer.
Z-correct true, reflective bump mapping.
Hardware accelerated real-time shadows.
True-color hardware cursor.
Integrated hardware transform engine.
Integrated hardware lighting engine.
Multibuffering (double, triple, quad).
Microsoft DirectX® and S3TC® compression.
nVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA).
Up to 8.0 GB/sec. memory bandwidth.
113 million triangles/sec. setup engine.
4.0 billion AA sample/sec. fill rate.
1.03 trillion operations/sec.

SAPPHIRE RADEON 9200 ATLANTIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING FEATURES:-

CHARISMA ENGINE II:-

Four parallel rendering pipelines process up to 1.1 billion pixels per second. High performance 2nd generation hardware transform & lighting engine. Advanced vertex shader support for the latest effects.

SMARTSHADER™

Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 8.1 programmable pixel and vertex shaders in hardware. 1.4 Pixel Shaders support up to 22 instructions and up to 6 textures per rendering pass. 1.1 Vertex Shaders support vertex programs up to 128 instructions. Programmable shaders provide enhanced 3D effects in over 100 existing and upcoming game titles. Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL via extensions.

SMOOTHVISION™

Image quality enhancement features for Direct3D™ and OpenGL ® applications. Programmable full-scene anti-aliasing supports 2 to 6 samples with user selectable performance and quality modes. Advanced anisotropic filtering supports 2 to 16 samples for high quality texture rendering with minimal performance impact.
HYPER Z™ II

Lossless Z-Buffer Compression and Fast Z-Buffer Clear reduce memory bandwidth by up to 25%

VIDEO FEATURES

Hardware accelerated de-blocking of Internet video streams. Delivers industry leading DVD playback. Integrated MPEG-2 decode including iDCT and motion compensation for top quality DVD with lowest CPU usage. Unique adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing feature combines the best elements of the "bob" and "add-field" (weave) techniques. YUV to RGB color space conversion. Back-end scaler delivers top quality playback. 4-tap horizontal and vertical filtering. Upscaling and downscaling. Filtered display of images up to 1920 pixels wide. Hardware mirroring for flipping video images in video conferencing systems. Supports 8-bit alpha blending and video keying for overlay of video and graphics.

EXTRA FEATURES

Supports the new AGP 8X standard (2.0 GB/sec). VIVO ( Video In & Video Out ). 128-bit floating-point color precision allows for a greater range of colors and brightness.


NAME CHIPSET GPU SPEED MEMORY AGP SPEED
MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200 NV28 250mhz 128Mb 512mhz DDR 8x
SAPPHIRE RADEON 9200 RV280 250mhz 128Mb 400mhz DDR 8x
NAME CHIPSET GPU SPEED MEMORY AGP SPEED

MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200

PAGE 1 - MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200 INTRODUCTION
PAGE 2 - 3DMARK 2001 SE AND 3DMARK 2003
PAGE 3 - QUAKE III ARENA AND RETURN TO CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN
PAGE 4 - SERIOUS SAM SE AND UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003

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