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Posted by
Julio
Franco on April 15, 2002
Manufacturer: Visiontek
Products: Xtasy
GeForce4 Ti4600
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GeForce4 Ti4400
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Ti4600 or Ti4400
prices.
Serious Sam was already a very reliable
OpenGL benchmark however ever since the "Second
Encounter" came out we quickly adopted it for videocard
testing so we could take advantage of the additions Croteam
has made to the Serious Engine. Looking at the results we
can easily notice GeForce 4 Ti architecture superiority over
the older GF3. The performance gap between GeForce4 Ti
boards is kept at the minimum even at high resolutions
(1600x1200). Less capable GPUs like GF4
MX's and GF2's lag behind as resolution increases.
This is a shootout between
the old performance leader, the GeForce3 Ti500 and the brand
new GeForce4 Ti4600. Without taking in consideration the
huge advantage the newer card has over the Ti500, what
matters the most is the performance hit each card takes
when using the different AA modes. We see a relatively small
performance drop in Ti4600's performance when using 2x and
Quincunx AA modes, however none of those will get you really
satisfied if aliasing bothers you a lot (and Quincunx being
way too blurry!).
Good news if you've got the
money to burn because using 4x and 4xS modes, the GeForce4
board performs slightly slower than the Ti500 having AA
disabled. The hit taken by those modes on the GeForce4 is
still huge, however we are glad to see that 4xS (which IMHO
is the NVIDIA's best AA by far) doesn't take but a small hit
compared to 4x.
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