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Creative 3D Blaster
GF4Ti4200 Review (1)
TimB 9 Dec 2002
We have the opportunity to review one of the
Creative 3DBlaster Range, in particular the GF4Ti4200 64MB which offers the
performance of the GF4 range but aimed at the value market. Lets put the card
through its paces and see how it performs.
Specifications
(Subject to change without prior
notice)
- Based on NVIDIA® GeForce4™ Ti4200 chipset,
with 64MB DDR RAM at 500MHz.
- Dual programmable Vertex Shaders and
advanced programmable Pixel Shaders for ultimate realism in 3D imaging and
effects, animations, surfaces and textures, with the nfiniteFX™ II Engine.
- Integrated graphics processor and dual
350MHz RAMDACs for smoothness and power at up to 1.03 trillion
operations/second.
- 8GB/second memory bandwidth optimised via
Lightspeed Memory Architecture™ II.
- Unbeatable visual quality, 113 million
triangles/second and 4 billion samples/second fill rates, with Accuview
Antialiasing™.
- Stunning full-screen DVD performance, with
integrated TV encoder and nView™ for maximum flexibility in display options
and control.
- 256-bit graphics architecture
- AGP 2X and 4X support
Hardware Features
- NVIDIA® nfiniteFX™ II Engine
- Programmable Vertex Shaders
- Programmable Pixel Shaders
- Lightspeed Memory Architecture™ II
- Accuview Antialiasing™
- nView™ Display Technology
- Transform and Lighting (T&L) engines
3D Features
- nfiniteFX™ II Engine
- Dual Programmable Vertex Shaders featuring
- Procedural Deformations
- Matrix Palette Skinning
- Keyframe Interpolation
- Radial, Elevation & Non-linear fog effects
- Fish-eye, Wide angle, Fresnel & Water
refraction lens effects
- Programmable Pixel Shader featuring
- Phong-style per-pixel lighting
- Dot3 bump mapping
- Environmental Bump mapping (EMBM)
- Emboss bump mapping
- Procedural textures
- Per Pixel Reflections
2D Features
- High Performance 256-bit 2D acceleration
- DVD sub-picture alpha blended compositing
- Video acceleration for DirectShow, MPEG-1,
MPEG-2, and Indeo
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