Geforce 4Ti beat GeforceFX 5900???

[StanTheMan]

yo guys...
i just found this coincidentally....
I built a new compie for my brother and put a geforce fx 5600 in it.
i myself just upgraded my geforce 4ti 4200 to geforce fx 5900.
then as usual i played several 3d demos just to show off.

When i played wolfman/werewolf nvidia demo, which smoothly on my geforce4ti even with 2xFSAA and 4xAF, all of the geforce fx play it like a slideshow, EVEN WITH FSAA AND AA TURN OFF. this really comes to my surprise.
wowww!!!!
btw, this only occur in the wolfman demo. other g4ti demo runs just fine on the fx series.

here is the hardware in use:
Geforce 4Ti 128MB core/mem 250/500
Geforce FX 5600 128MB core/mem 325/550
Geforce FX 5900 256MB core/mem 400/850
Driver used: 52.16 and 53.03 (Two last official release)
WinXP SP1, DX9.0b, ASUS A7N8x Deluxe Rev. 2, Barton 2800 (2.08 Ghz, 166Mhz fsb), 1.5GB Kingmax DDR333 RAM (CAS3), SB Audigy.

As an additional information, the demo is an openGL based demo, and can be downloaded from:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/demo_wolfman.html

cheers
- Stanley -

 

[txxxx]

Interesting, maybe the FX is attempting to run it at ps v2 level, rather than v1.3 that the ti4200 supports on hardware. And as we know...so far dx9 ps2.0 performance is poor in comparison to ATI.

 

[StanTheMan]

or maybe the g4ti has something that fxs dont ;P

 

[Ionizer86]

Are you using the latest forcewares for all cards?

 

[tec699]

Hmm.. I'm making the same upgrade today. I have a Geforce 4 4200 (128mb) and I'm going to put in the EVGA 5900 Geforce FX. Are you sure that you installed software and hardware properly, because every review that I've read has stated that the Geforce FX 5900 was a very good performer. And when the reviewer's put the 4200 in the story, the 5900 outpaced it by a large margin.

Anyway, I'm upgrading my mobo, processor, harddrive, sound card and graphics card so maybe I'll have better luck then you.

 

[StanTheMan]

Ionizer86: yes. they all use the same driver

tec699:
yes, it's true. i think this is a special case related to nvidia's demo. this could just be a driver bug
don't worry, go get urself an fx5900 card. its a very fast card and a worthy upgrade for ur g4ti.

 

[Matthias99]

btw, this only occur in the wolfman demo. other g4ti demo runs just fine on the fx series.

It's gotta be something specific to this demo. Possibly something is hardcoded for the GF4-Ti cards that doesn't work well on the FX series, or it's running it at the wrong precision, as suggested above. The 5900 is far, far faster than the Ti4600, let alone the Ti4200.