This chip is presented by Leadtek WinFast A170V TH 64MB, AGP videocard.
Features:
- NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 chip, 270MHz clock rate; 270 MHz;
- 64MB SDR SGRAM memory in 8 Samsung 4ns (5ns) microchips, 200 (400) MHz clock rate,
200 (400) MHz, 128-bit bus;
- Peak fill rate in the multitexturing mode (without optimizations) is 540 megapixels/sec and 1080 megatexels/sec.
The beginning of April brought us the announcement of the new GeForce4 family. It included not only the top Ti 4400/4600 models, but also mainstream MX 420/440/460. The latter cards were not the pared-down GeForce4 Ti, but a kind of a hybrid of GeForce2 and GeForce4. The new MXes lost not only the the half of pixel pipelines (2 of 4), but also the pixel shaders block, 3-level anisotropy, and EMBM support. This "castration" resulted in a cheap chip to easily compete not only with previous GeForce2 products, but also with ATI RADEON 7500 cards. These cards still have the GeForce4 core, including the faster memory controller, thus they demonstrate higher speed than their analogs released a year and a half ago. The medium MX440 model succeeds in replacing GeForce2 Ti/Pro. Read more about it in our reviews:
Theoretical and analytical videocard reviews, containing
functional analysis of NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti GPU: NVIDIA GeForce4
MX
These cards also compete with ATI RADEON 7500. But the release of new ATI RADEON 9000 solutions may shatter MX 440 positions, being faster and sometimes cheaper, not mentioning DX81 support, absent in GF4MX.
Wasn't overclocked.
On the 10th of August 2002 the latest drivers from NVIDIA are 29.90, 30.00, 30.82 for Windows XP.
Seeing the test results, I recommend you to use 29.42 as the most stable and fast (and official).
You can get more information about problems of various NVIDIA drivers at the NVIDIA World web-site.
You can compare screenshots with reference ones (NVIDIA GeForce3).
