September 2002 3Digest -
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8x 64MB DDR 5ns

This chip is presented by reference NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8x, AGP.

Features:

• NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 chip with AGP8x, clock rate 275 MHz;
• 64MB SDR SGRAM memory in eight Samsung 3.6ns chips, clock rate 513 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 have almost succeeded in replacing GeForce2 Ti/Pro. But Intel have released AGP 3.0 specification, and NVIDIA implemented it in the "same" MX440, supporting AGP 8x and featuring higher memory clock. NVIDIA tries to oppose this card to ATI RADEON 9000 (though doubtfully, as the latter supports DirectX 8.1).

Theoretical and analytical videocard reviews, containing functional analysis of NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti GPU: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX

• Review of NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP 8X
• Review of NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX GPU in MSI cards
• Review of NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX 440 cards from ASUSTeK, ABIT, Leadtek and Prolink
• Review of NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX 440 cards from InnoVision, Sparkle, Palit and Gainward
• Review of NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX 440 cards from eVGA, Chaintech and SUMA
• Review of NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX 440/460 cards from Gainward (MX460), AOpen (MX460), Leadtek (MX440 Ultra) and Triplex (MX440)

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 September 2002 the latest drivers from NVIDIA are 30.20, 31.00, 40.41 for Windows XP.

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).

Games / Cards	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX
NVIDIA GeForce3

Games / Cards	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX						-		-		-
NVIDIA GeForce3

Games / Cards	25	26	27	28	29	30
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX
NVIDIA GeForce3

Game list: 1. Return to Castle Wolfenstein 2. Unreal2 (alpha version) 3. Comanche4 4. Jedi Knight II Outcast 5. Morrowind 6. Colin McRAE Rally2 7. Red Faction 8. Rally Trophy 9. Sacrifice 10. Venom 11. Unreal Tournament 2003 DEMO 12. Real MYST 13. Blade of Darkness 14. Neverwinter Nights 15. 3DMark2001: Game1 16. 3DMark2001: Game2 17. 3DMark2001: Game3 18. 3DMark2001: Game4 19. 3DMark2001: Dot3 20. 3DMark2001: EMBM 21. 3DMark2001: Vertex Shaders 22. 3DMark2001: Pixel Shaders 23. Warcraft III 24. Soldier of Fortune II 25. Command and Conquer: Renegade 26. No One Lives Forever Demo 27. AquaNox 28. Serious Sam: The Second Encounter 29. IL2: Shturmovik 30. MoHAA And 6.* drivers are not compatible with the software for sound cards based on Yamaha processor, as well as with SoftXG100 software synthesizer. Start or Close Window buttons might be spoiled by some "garbage" in 2D mode. One solution is in the iXBT Forum. Andrew Worobyew (Anvakams@ixbt.com) Alexander Kondakov (kondalex@ixbt.com) Evgeniy Zaycev (eightn@ixbt.com) [an error occurred while processing this directive]