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In February
2002, NVIDIA announced their latest flagship GPU, the
GeForce 4 Ti 4600. This new GPU would not only raise
the bar in terms of performance, but would also sport a
slew of new features. NVIDIA revamped their
Anti-Aliasing engine, and gave it a new name, "Accuview".
They also incorporated the ability to power dual displays
simultaneously. They called this new feature "nView".
The Lightspeed Memory Architecture and nFiniteFX engine
introduced with the GeForce 3, had also been reworked for
increased efficiency and higher performance, courtesy of a
second vertex shader.
If you haven't already done so, we suggest reading our
recent launch article, for a detailed analysis of the new
GeForce 4s.
When we were
initially exposed to the GeForce 4 Ti, we knew there would
be a myriad of manufacturers itching to release boards
based on the new GPU. The first manufacturer to do
so, is
Visiontek. Two years ago, Visiontek wasn't very
well known because they strictly made boards for OEMs.
Visiontek decided to enter the retail market though and in
the last year they've come on so strong, that they now
have the best selling NVIDIA based graphics boards in the
United States. Let's see what Visiontek was able to
do with NVIDIA's latest...
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Specifications and Features of the Visiontek GF4
Ti 4600 |
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Pure Titanium |
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Xtasy
GeForce4 Ti 4600:
- 300MHz GPU
- VGA, TV In/Out, DV
- 256-bit Graphics
Accelerator
- 1.23 trillion
operations/sec.
- Lifetime Warranty
Nvidia
nfiniteFX II Engine:
- Dual programmable
Vertex Shaders, faster Pixel Shaders and 3D textures
give developers the freedom to program a virtually
infinite number of custom special effects never seen
before and gives you the power to play true-to-life
characters in hyper-realistic environments. At twice
the performance of GeForce3, Xtasy Ti 4600 delivers
the most realistic game play available.
Lightspeed Memory Architecture II:
- With 128-bit DDR
Lightspeed Memory Architecture II provides nearly
double the memory bandwidth of GeForce3.
Accuview Antialiasing Engine:
- High-performance
visual quality at high frame rates.
TV In
and Out Jack:
- TV In/Out connector
allow you to play on any size TV in your house with
an s-video connector.
Requirements:
- 266 MHz or higher
CPU (AMD K6-2 or Intel Pentium II or higher)
- AGP 2.0 Compliant
Socket
- CD ROM drive
- Windows 95 OSR2, 98,
ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP
- 64MB of RAM
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Specifications:
- Controller: NVIDIA
GeForce4 Ti 4600
- Bus Type AGP
- Memory 128MB DDR
- Core Clock 300MHz
- Memory Clock 650MHz
DDR memory
- RAMDAC 350MHz
- API Support
Direct-X, Open GL ICD for Windows
- Connectors VGA, DVI,
TV In/Out
- 1.23 trillion
operations/sec.
- 136 Million
triangles/sec setup
- 10.4GB/second memory
bandwidth
Features at a Glance:
- AGP 4x compatible
with fast writes
- 256-bit 3D and 2D
graphics accelerator
- NVIDIA nView display
technologies
- Lightspeed Memory
Architecture II
- Accuview
Antialiasing
- High Definition
Video Processing Engine
- TV In/Out connectors
- DVI connector
Package
Contains:
- GeForce4 Ti 4600
Graphics Accelerator
- Installation Guide
- Installation CD
- Install Guide .pdf
- Demos
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- NVIDIA Unified
Driver Architecture
- Cyberlink PowerDVD
- Cyberlink
PowerDirector
- ViVo Dongle
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THE BUNDLE:
The Visiontek
GeForce 4 Ti 4600 ships with a decent bundle of software
and accessories. There's nothing included in the box
to get overly excited about, but Visiontek isn't exactly
stingy either!
Bundled with
the Visiontek GeForce 4 Ti 4600 is the obligatory driver
CD and a "Getting Started" poster that outlines the
installation step-by-step. You'll also find two
other CDs included, one is the excellent Cyberlink Power
DVD XP and the other is a second Cyberlink product called
PowerDirector. Power DVD is arguably the best
software DVD player, and PowerDirector is a capable video
editing package. Visiontek opted to include
PowerDirector with their GeForce 4 Ti 4600 because this
card has Video-In / Video Out capabilities. The
picture on the right shows the dongle (I love that word)
necessary to connect the S-Video cables to your video
equipment. There are few of things we feel were
missing from Visiontek's bundle though. Finding two
S-Video to composite video adapters, a DVI to Analog-VGA
adapter and perhaps a game or two in the box, would have
made the bundle perfect.
Quality,
Setup and the Drivers
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