MSI GeForce4 MX440 - First Look @ t-break w/benches. BACK UP NOW

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when does it come out? how much will it be?

 

[MisterDuck]

Eh...looks to me like they're reviewing a half completed product. It seems like the drivers are very immature and have a lot of room for improvement - I'm willing to bet that this card will whip a geforce3 ti 200, but not with those cruddy drivers....

The overclocking was impressive. =)

if the drivers were fixed, and the scored were better than the ti 200, then I'd pay the (estimated) $175 that they said the card would cost.



One thing - is this card DX8 compatible? It didn't indicate anywhere that it was....does anyone know?

 

[RoninSBS]

Some of these will have dual DVI. Not the mention full MPEG-2 hardware decoder. Sweet 🙂

To roughly give you an idea of MX 640 performance, here is MX 440 oc 300/480 bench. MX 640 will run @ 300/550, so add 10% to these numbers.

 

[John]

Yea I meant the GF2MX400 of course, heh. Still, I think it would be interesting to see the budget cards duke it out.

 

[Rand]

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One thing - is this card DX8 compatible? It didn't indicate anywhere that it was....does anyone know? >>



No it isnt.
The GF4 MX is based on the NV17 core. It's more of a mix of the GF2/3.

 

[kuk]

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One thing - is this card DX8 compatible? It didn't indicate anywhere that it was....does anyone know? >>



No it isnt.
The GF4 MX is based on the NV17 core. It's more of a mix of the GF2/3. >>



I dunno ... from the article that Anand posted a few months back, he mentioned the NV17M (the mobile part), not the NV17 (desktop). Maybe they crippled only the mobile version of the NV17. But that's a wild guess.

 

[Rand]

The NV17 (GF4 MX) is a DirectX7 part.
It has limited vertex shader capabilities, it has the GF2's T&L engine, the 'crossbar' memory architecture of the GF3.
Only two pixel pipelines and the associated 2 texels/pipeline rather then the 4 that the GF2 (non-MX), GF3, and GF4 has.
It does support the GF3's 'Quincunx' FSAA implementation, along with the GF1/2's 2X and 4X SuperSampled FSAA implementation.

Think of it as a cross between the GF2 MX and the GF3.