This chip is presented by Gainward PowerPack GeForce4 Ultra/750 XP, 128MB, AGP card.

Features:

• NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 chip, 310 MHz clock rate;
• 128MB DDR SGRAM memory in eight Samsung 2.8ns microchips, 340 (680) MHz clock rate, 128-bit bus;
• Peak fill rate in the multitexturing mode without optimizations is 1240 megapixels/sec and 2480 megatexels/sec.

We've already used to the appearance of improved products 6 months after their original version release (TNT - TNT2, GeForce - GeForce2, GeForce3 - NV25). But this time it was marketing who moved NV25 release from the fall of 2001 to February 2002, as they had to release Ti200/500 to compete with new ATI products. And so NV25 or GeForce4 was released. And already as a line: 4400-4600. Now these are almost the most powerful 3D-accelerators on the PC game videocard market. And Gainward updated its Golden Samples serie with Ti 4400/4600, operating at higher clock rates and being the fastest (and the most expensive) in their class.

Read more about GeForce4 in the following articles:

• Theoretical and analytical videocard reviews, containing functional analysis of NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti GPU: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti
  • NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti review
  • MSI GF4Ti4600 on NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti - concerns anisotropic filtering in the 3DMark2001 SE, and new Advanced Pixel Shader Test from this packet.
  • Leadtek WinFast GeForce4 Ti 4600 on NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 - tests based on the Vulpine GLMark with anisotropy enabled.
  • Gainward PowerPack GeForce4 Ultra/700XP and Ultra/750XP Golden Sample on NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400/4600 - Codecult Code Creatures and Novalogic Comanche4 Benchmark.
  • Chaintech A-GF61 SE on NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 - dependence of the performance on a CPU speed (AMD Athlon 750, 1000 MHz, Athlon XP 1250, 1666 MHz; in Serious Sam II, Return to Castle Wolfenstein).
  • Creative 3D Blaster GeForce4 Ti 4400 on NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400 - dependence of the performance on a CPU speed (Intel Pentium III 1000, Pentium 4 2000, 2200 MHz; in Serious Sam II, Return to Castle Wolfenstein).
  • ASUS V8440 and V8460 on NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400 and 4600 - dependence of the performance on a CPU speed (Intel Pentium III 1000, Pentium 4 2000, 2200 MHz, AMD Athlon 750, 1000 MHz, Athlon XP 1250, 1666 MHz; in 3DMark2001 SE).
  • ABIT Siluro GF4 Ti on NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400 - AA operation in the 3DMark2001 SE.
  • Palit Daytona GeForce4 Ti 4600 - operation of anisotropy on different platforms based on the 3DMark2001 SE (Game1, Game2).
  • Joytech Apollo Bloody Monster II GeForce4 Ti 4600 - examination of anisotropy on different platforms on the 3DMark2001 SE (Game3, Game4).
  • SUMA Platinum GeForce4 Ti 4400 DVI and GeForce4 Ti 4600 SE - examination of anti-aliasing on different platforms in 3DMark2001 SE (Game1, Game2).
  • Triplex Millennium Silver GeForce Ti 4600 - examination of anti-aliasing on different platforms in 3DMark2001 SE (Game3, Game4).
  • Leadtek WinFast A250LE 64 MBytes and Gainward Powerpack Ultra/650XP 128 MBytes on NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200
  • SUMA Platinum GeForce4 Ti 4200 64 MBytes, GeForce4 Ti 4200 SE 64 MBytes, GeForce4 Ti 4200 SE 128 MBytes - examination of anisotropy in Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Serious Sam: The Second Encounter.
  • SUMA Platinum GeForce4 Ti 4200 64 MBytes, 4200SE 64 MBytes and 4200SE 128 MBytes - examination of anisotropy in 3DMark2001 SE, RtCW, Serious Sam: TSE.
  • Sparkle GeForce4 Ti 4400 and GeForce4 Ti 4600 cards

On the 10th of August 2002 the latest drivers from NVIDIA are 29.90, 30.00, 30.82 for Windows XP.

Wasn't overclocked.

Test results are in the summary diagrams.

You can get more information about problems of various NVIDIA drivers at the NVIDIA World web-site.

Pay attention to the article concerning anisotropic filtering.

I shall mark that GeForce3/4 supports new types of antialiasing based on multisampling (MSAA) technology, including noteworthy Quincunx mode (read about it in our GeForce3 review). But it has a serious disadvantage of texture soaping. But we should have already used to trade-offs of modern accelerators. I recommend you to read the GeForce4 Ti article and get acquainted with the new 4xS AA.

Interesting technologies of working with vertex and pixel shaders allow to create more realistic lighting effects and to form original solutions:

Vertex shaders and fur

The power and perfomance of GeForce4 is in the best way demonstrated in the demo-version of the CodeCreatures engine with already two games in development:

Pixel shaders in action

There's no criticism about 3D quality in all the games tested. Look at the shots taken on GeForce3 and GeForce4.