The really high-end product line that NVIDIA is introducing today with all the bells and whistles carries the name 'GeForce4 Ti'. The flagship of this line was sent out to all the reviewers worldwide, as the GeForce4 Ti4600:
Besides GeForce4 Ti4600, there will also be a GeForce4 Ti4400 and a GeForce4 Ti4200 to make the confusion perfect. In the following table you see the basic specs of the new GeForce4 Ti card series, compared to NVIDIA's former flagship product, the GeForce3 Ti500.
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GeForce4 Ti4600
GeForce4 Ti4400
GeForce4 Ti4200
GeForce3 Ti500
Chip Clock
300 MHz
275 MHz
225 MHz
240 MHz
Memory Clock
650 MHz (DDR)
550 MHz
500 MHz
500 MHz
Amount of Memory
128 MB
128 MB
128 MB
64 MB
Memory Bandwidth
10,400 MB/s
8,800 MB/s
8,000 MB/s
8,000 MB/s
Theoretical Fill Rate
1,200 Mpixel/s
1,100 Mpixel/s
900 Mpixel/s
960 Mpixel/s
Price
$399
$299
$199
$299
Before we get into the technology behind the GeForce4 Ti series, let's have a quick peep at the basic specs of NV25:
63 million transistors (only 3 million more than GeForce3)
Manufactured in TSMC's .15 µ process
Chip clock 225 - 300 MHz
Memory clock 500 - 650 MHz
Memory bandwidth 8,000 - 10,400 MB/s
TnL Performance of 75 - 100 million vertices/s
128 MB frame buffer by default
nfiniteFX II engine
Accuview Anti Aliasing
Light Speed Memory Architecture II
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