G4Ti4600-VT2D8X: With the GeForce FX still MIA, we take a look at their current flagship, the GeForce 4 Ti4600, souped up with AGP8x. The MSI version also breaks away from reference by including their own cooling system.
Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 3 w/Direct X 9
Drivers:
Parhelia 1.03.00.043
MSI 8888 - 41.109
MSI GF4 Ti4600-VT2D8X - 41.109
Other Cards:
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, ATi TV Wonder
Cooler:
Retail Pentium IV Heatsink
Case:
InWin Q500
Power Supply:
Enermax EG365P-VE 350Watts
Software:
Fraps 1.9a
Direct X Benchmarks:
Unreal Tournament 2003 (HardOCP software - using Antalus Demo)
Max Payne 1.05 (Shooting Alex Demo)
OpenGL Benchmarks:
Jedi Knight II Jedi Outcast (time demo)
Serious Sam SE (Little Trouble)
All tests were run at 1024*768 with all settings at maximum except antialiasing and ansiotropic filtering were not enabled, also they were run at 1024*768 with AA (4XS/4X for MSI, and 16X for Parhelia) and 2X Ansiotropic filtering. 1600*1200 was run with and without ansiotropic filtering and AA enabled. All tests were run 3 times with the highest of the closest two frame rates being used. All frame rates were graphed using Fraps 1.9 to measure the frame rate each second, as seen in the Parhelia review, though we have put the frame rate in a bar graph. Please click the bar graph result for each video card to see the line graph of the frame rate. Let us look at four games to look at the performance of these cards to see if the GeForce 4 Ti4600 will dominate the tests. In the following pages, the G4Ti4600-VT2D8X will be referred to as the Ti4800 in the graphs.
G4Ti4600-VT2D8X: With the GeForce FX still MIA, we take a look at their current flagship, the GeForce 4 Ti4600, souped up with AGP8x. The MSI version also breaks away from reference by including their own cooling system.
