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Introduction
High
end video cards right now now come with a minimum
of 128MB of memory. Worth mentioning are the GeForce4
Ti 4400/4600 of NVIDIA, the Radeon 9700 or ATi
and the Parhelia of Matrox. DX8/8.1 gaming is
now getting more and more popular and in order
to play those games, the video cards must also
be able to keep up. The Ti 4200 chip wasn't part
of NVIDIA's original plan but after the low points
of the GeForce4 MX series were exposed by early
reviews/previews, NVIDIA had to release a chip
that could bring DX8/8.1 gaming to the masses...and
thus came the GeForce4 Ti 4200 chip coming in
64MB and 128MB variants.
64MB
vs 128MB
Since
the GeForce4 Ti 4200 comes in two flavors, they
also come in different clock speeds. The 64MB
comes clocked at 250/500 compared to 250/444 on
the 128MB card. More often than not, the 64MB
card is faster thanks to the additional bandwidth
but when they run at the same clock, they perform
more or less at the same level of each other.
In this review however, the Inno3D GeForce4 Ti
4200, which represents the 64MB Ti 4200 runs at
250/513 at least according to the NVIDIA coolbits
clock utility and the Palit Daytona GeForce4 Ti
4200 represents the 128MB Ti 4200 and comes clocked
at 250/446.
The
64MB vs 128MB test was only done at 1280X1024
to prevent having a CPU-limited test. As seen
from the results above, they would perform around
the same level once they run at the same core
and memory clock speeds. The 64MB Ti 4200 is faster
when both running at their default clock speeds.
The
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