Introduction
What NVIDIA chipset comes after GeForce4 Ti 4600? If you were to answer GeForce FX, well it isnt entirely right. Soon after the inception of GeForce4 Ti 4200-8x based graphics cards, which is basically the original GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP 8x support, NVIDIA launched the GeForce4 Ti 4800SE and GeForce 4 Ti 4800 chipsets. Both of these chipsets are nothing but re-branded GeForce4 Ti 4400 and GeForce4 Ti 4600 respectively, but with their core updated to support AGP 8x transfers.
In the last quarter of 2002, we presented our findings of the benefit of AGP 8x on the GeForce4 Ti 4200 in the
AGP 4x vs 8x Part II article
. To sum that article, AGP 8x provided no real benefits to the GeForce4 Ti 4200 series for current mix of games. The same faith applied to the RADEON 9700 Pro too. Clearly, this move by NVIDIA was to buy a little time till the GeForce FX arrived. Whats worse is that the new naming scheme is utterly misleading to the general public. This is worse than the GeForce4 MX naming fiasco. Is NVIDIA desperately trying to fill in the time gap or is it just fully making use of its number game tactics? That answer will probably be confined to the inner walls of NVIDIAs marketing team and never be known.
Let's drop the name game issue and look into MSIs offering of the GeForce4 Ti 4800SE. Dubbed the MSI G4Ti4800SE-VTD8X 128MB, it replaces the older MSI G4Ti4400-VTD 128MB. These are its technical specifications:-
MSI G4Ti4800SE-VTD8X 128MB Technical Specifications
| Graphics Engine |
- NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4800SE GPU
- nfiniteFX II Engine
- Dual programmable Vertex Shaders
- Procedural deformations
- Programmable matrix palette skinning
- Real-time hair and fur shading
- Keyframe animation interpolation
- Morphing
- Fog effects : Radial, Elevation, Non-linear
- Lens effects : Fish eye, Wide angle, Fresnel effects, Water
refraction
- Programmable Pixel Shaders
- Accuview Antialiasing
- nView Display Technology
- Lightspeed Memory Architecture II engine
- Four independent memory controllers
- Lossless Z-compression
- Z-occlusion culling
- Fast Z-clear
- Auto-precharge
- Shadow Buffers
- Integrated hardware lighting engine
- DirectX and S3TC texture compression
- Dual cube environment mapping capability
- Hardware accelerated real-time shadows
- True, reflective bump mapping
- High-performance 2D rendering engine
- High-quality HDTV/DVD playback
- High-definition video processor (HDVP)
- 125M triangles/sec
- 4.4 billion texels Fill Rate (AA sample/sec)
- Default clock speed 250/513 (core/DDR memory)
- 128MB DDR Memory
- 8.8GB/sec Memory Bandwidth
- Microsoft DirectX 8.x optimizations and support
- OpenGL 1.3 optimizations and support
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| Graphics Memory |
- 128MB DDR SDRAM (Hynix 3.6ns)
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| RAMDAC |
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| Connectors |
- 1x analog RGB connector
- 1x 9-pin mini-DIN connector (for TV-Out and Video-in)
- 1x DVI-I connector (for Digital Flat Panel displays) with DVI-I to
DB-15 converter
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| Driver & Software |
- Driver support for Windows 98/98SE/Me/NT 4.0/2000/XP
- NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
- Fully compliant professional OpenGL 1.3 API with NVIDIA extensions
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
- The Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind (2 discs)
- Duke Nukem Manhattan Project
- 7-in-1 Games Collections : The Sum of All Fears, Beam Breakers, IL-2
Sturmovik, Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, Rally Trophy, Beam
Breakers, Zax: The Alien Hunter, Oni
- FarStone VirtualDrive & RestoreIT!
- InterVideo WinDVD 5.1 Channel & Supreme Foreign Language
Learning Machine
- InterVideo WinProducer/WinCoder & Professional Users' Pack
- Trend PC-cillin 2002
- ThinSoft Be Twin
- E-Color 3Deep
- MSI Utilities
- MSI 3D Desktop
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| Other Information |
- AGP 2.0/3.0 slot required
- 1 PCI-assigned IRQ Required
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