SUMMARY: nVidia has had control of the 3D graphics card market for a few years now with little competition until just recently with the release of Radeon 8500 from ATi, not to mention other solutions from SiS and Matrox. Today Cameron "Sov" Johnson takes a look at the VisionTek Ti4600 and Gigabyte Radeon 8500 where he puts them head to head giving us an idea of the features of both but most importantly, which performs the best!
• Controller: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 • Bus Type AGP • Memory 128MB DDR • Core Clock 300MHz • Memory Clock 650MHz DDR memory • Dual RAMDACs 350MHz (each) • API Support Direct-X, Open GL ICD for Windows • Connectors VGA, DVI, TV In/Out • 1.23 trillion operations/sec. • 136 Million vertices/sec setup • 10.4GB/second memory bandwidth
Features at a Glance
• AGP 4x compatible with fast writes • 256-bit 3D and 2D graphics accelerator • NVIDIA nView™ display technologies • Lightspeed Memory Architecture™ II • Accuview Antialiasing™ • High Definition Video Processing Engine • TV In/Out connectors • DVI connector
