Review: ABIT Siluro Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB

• 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 500MHz 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 GB/sec. memory bandwidth (500MHz DDR)
• 113 million triangles/sec. setup engine
• 4 billion AA sample/sec. fill rate
• 1.03 trillion operations/sec

Key features in more detail include:

• 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.

• Accuview Antialiasing (AA): The Accuview Antialiasing subsystem with advanced multisampling hardware delivers full-scene antialiased quality at performance levels never before seen.

• 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 250MHz core speed and 500MHz memory speed put it a step lower than the Ti 4400 (275/550) and comfortably below the specification of the Ti 4600 (300/650). Note, this Ti 4200 has 64MB of on-board memory as opposed to the 128MB of the Ti 4400 / 4600 respectively.