For those of you who want
the nitty-gritty, here is what the MSI Ti 4200 packs under the hood..
• Dual programmable Vertex Shaders
• Advanced programmable Pixel Shaders
• nVIDIA Lightspeed Memory Architecture™ II
• nVIDIA Accuview™ Antialiasing
• 3D Textures
• Shadow Buffers
• 4 dual-rendering pipelines
• 8 texels per clock cycle
• Dual cube environment mapping
• 64MB high-speed DDR RAM memory at 513MHz DDR
• High-Definition Video Processor (HDVP)
• AGP 4X with Fast Writes
• AGP 4X / 2X and AGP Texturing support
• 32-bit color with 32-bit Z/stencil buffer
• Z-correct true, reflective bump mapping
• High-performance 2D rendering engine
• Hardware accelerated real-time shadows
• True-color hardware cursor
• Integrated hardware transform and lighting engine
• High-quality HDTV/DVD playback
• TV-Out and Video Modules
• Multibuffering (double, triple, quad) for smooth animation and video
playback
• Microsoft DirectX® and S3TC® texture compression
• 8.208 GB/sec. memory bandwidth (513MHz DDR)
• 113 million triangles/sec. setup engine
• 4 billion AA sample/sec. fill rate
• 1.03 trillion operations/sec.
The numbers just keep
getting bigger and bigger.
Key features in more detail
include:
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nfiniteFX II engine:
The NVIDIA nfiniteFX II Engine
incorporates dual programmable Vertex Shaders, faster Pixel Shaders
and 3D textures. The nfiniteFX II Engine gives developers the freedom
to program a virtually infinite number of custom special effects to
create true-to-life characters and environments.
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Accuview Antialiasing
(AA): The Accuview Antialiasing subsystem with advanced
multisampling hardware delivers full-scene antialiased quality at
performance levels never before seen.
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nView Display
Technology: The nView hardware and software technology combination
delivers maximum flexibility for multi-display options, and provides
unprecedented end-user control of the desktop experience. nView allows
end-users to select any combination of multiple displays, including
digital flat panels, analog CRTs, and TVs, and to modify the display
properties using an intuitive software interface.
A feature-set and
performance in a budget card ?, let's find out.
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