Tom's Hardware Review of the Geforce4 family

[mrman3k]

I would like to get people's opinions about the new Geforce4 family. I think it is great up until I see the price, then that will probably be the killer. So post away.

 

[axia55]

For $199 the Ti4200 is looking great! I think that is the one I will be getting. When is the ETA for the Ti's? I have heard march.

 

[Pocatello]

The GeForce4 Ti4200 is reasonably priced, and should be faster or equal that of the GeForce 3 Ti 500, which was much more expensive

 

[taylor34]

They actually don't look too bad. Probably keep my 8500 for now, but it's nice to see nvidia with a card below $300 for once when it comes out. The 4200 looks pretty good--it would definitely be the card to get out of the bunch. Thought it might be a little faster for a next generation product though, but oh well.

Taylor34

 

[Qwest]

excellent review, very thorough. should be interesting to see how much retailers slash their prices on their geforce 3 ti500 which tom says should be no more than $149-179.

 

[Qwest]

is it even worth getting a geforce4? i've read that Nvidia will release a new GPU every six months as part of their business plan.

 

[BCompDude]

It all depends on what you have in your machine right now. If you need to upgrade, now is a good time, the Ti4200 is excellent, faster than a Ti500 and priced at 200 dollars. . .yowsers! There will ALWAYS be something around the corner. Just my two cents.

 

[EglsFly]

...and I just recently got my GeForce3 Ti200.

nVidia keeps up with their 6 month product release cycle.
Leaving all there customers and competitors in the dust.

Hats off to them for keeping up with the execution!

 

[DKNG]

I doubt that any of the retailers would slash the prices of their GF3 Ti 500 to $149-179 especially here in Canada where I see them selling for more than $500.
There is no way there gonna cut their prices in half.

 

[Killrose]

Very impressive performance, but I think I'll just "plod along" with what I now have.

 

[MetroRider]

nice review as the Geforce 4 looks like the card to get for the serious hardcore gamer with some serious cash

 

[Vernor]

I notice he also came to the conclusion that the MX line is misnumbered, to use an understatement.

 

[oldfart]

<< DXTC

With GeForce4, NVIDIA solves a problem that has been criticized ever since the first generation GeForce: the poor rendering quality of DXTC1 texture compression. By using 16-bit color depth, the textures rendered are very coarse, as are the colors. The sky in Quake 3 is just one example.

NVIDIA finally eliminates this problem with the GeForce4 >>



It's about time they fixed it.

 

[Qwest]

i really like the geforce4 ti 4200, seems like teh best card for the money....how come there is no mention of it on nvidia's website???
but tom has a review of it with projected price?

 

[BFG10K]

It's about time they fixed it.

Careful Oldfart, the drivers could simply be forcing DXT3 instead of DXT1 automatically. I want to see no artifacts in UT using the large textures before I'll believe it.

 

[oldfart]

Good point BFG. I do remember hearing the nv25 would have a hardware fix. UT would be a good test since the DXTC3 hack doesn't work in that game.

 

[Instigator]

Actually I'm very interested in the 4400. It's retail is $299 and very close in performance (i.e. less than 5%) the 4600. If we are lucky we may be able to pick it up for $250-$275 and overclock it close the the 4600. Man, I'm very impressed with the GeForce 4. I have a Voodoo 5 5500 and play everything with FSAA X2. The performance numbers at 1024x768x32 with X2 are OUTSTANDING! Jesus, the thing runs FSAA X2 at the same speed of a Ti500 without FSAA. One word.....IMPRESSIVE.

 

[vedin]

Well, let's see...the MXs are crap. Rehashed GF2s basically. No real market for them when the 2Ti 200s are around. The 4Ti line looks spiffy in speed, especially when anti-aliasing, but the only one not priced insanely is the 4200. If anyone has a GF3/Ti500, I'd say bad deal to get a new card right now period. Or if you have a 8500. Who needs 200 fps in Quake 3? Not me. However, it would be nice to anti-alias and still have a decent resolution...but that's why I'm waiting for the next Kyro card. COULD, (Hypothetical situation here folks, no need to comment with anger, sarcasm, hate, prejudice, etc..), be as fast as the 4200, if not a bit faster, in raw power, and still AA just as well, as cost less.