Geforce 4 finally out!!!

[Cw_strife]

Well guys as most of you know today, the Geforce4 just came out with the Geforce4 4600 as there flagship chip, with a nice amount of DDR RAM, to make a total of 128MB, twice as much as the Geforce2 and 3 boards. Now for some reason, this chip seems to have a performance increase of about i'd say 10% over the Geforce3 Ti500. :? Anyways below are the specs on the two chipsets.

Geforce3 Ti500


Graphics Core:256-bit
Memory Interface:128-bit DDR
Fill Rate:3.84 Billion AA Samples/Sec.
Operations per Second:960 Billion
Memory Bandwidth:8.0GB/Sec.

Geforce4 4600


Triangles per Second:136 Million
Fill Rate:4.8 Billion AA Samples/Sec.
Operations per Second:1.23 Trillion
Memory Bandwidth:10.4GB/Sec.
Maximum Memory:128MB

They also say that the memory is supposed to be increased by 300%. On the benchmarks over at www.guru3d.com. Below are some of the benchmarks posted on the site from what they have tested from there own Creative Blaster Mx420 board.

Quake III Framrate Benchmark

800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200

GeForce2 MX 400 88.2 55.53 33.17 22

GeForce4 MX 420 124.03 82.77 50.8 33.8

GeForce3 Ti 200 175.37 153.63 113 80.7

I respect guru3d and from what it seems I agree with them when they say that the geforce4Mx 420 is only newer version of the Geforce2Mx 400. Although the performance increase is about 30-40FPS I am wondering how the Geforce4 4600 hundred will perform. On the spec sheet it doesn't seem like much but if you can get an extra 30 to 40 FPS on the MX card maybe we will see a performance on the 4600 card to be around the same or even more. Maybe the 3dMark2001 from www.madonion.com will even go up by 1000 or more! Can't wait to see the 4600 version. :p

Anywas that's about it, hope you guys will post your comments after reading this little article. :smilewink If not then I will be very upset and probably look like this. Well probably not, but post what you think. So everyone can have some opinions floating and what your thinking about this chip. Well i'm out. By the way, I set up a poll as well, so vote your opinion as well!