Nvidia GeForce4 Titanium and GeForce 4 MX Pics: Specs Too for Those That Forgot

[AGodspeed]

The GeForce4's specs have been "known" for a couple of weeks now, but I thought it would be cool to post what the pics might look like.

GeForce4 Specs for Those That Didn't Already Know:

GeForce4 (NV25):
- Core Clock 300 MHz
- Mem Clock 600 MHz
- Memory 128MB DDR
- Full MPEG2 Decoder / TV-OUT Encoder / TMDS / 2 RAMDAC / SLI Mode

This is what I want.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Impressive. I don't know if I can wait for it, though. I'm building a new system, hopefully next week, and my plan is to go with an ATi Radeon 7500.

Edit: I forget what TMDS is. Can you explain it? And what is the SLI mode for? Is this Voodoo technology/designed for multi-GPU cards?

 

[Pabster]

Where's them dern new ATI R300 logos?

The competition in the GPU arena is about to heat up again. Frankly, I'm ready. The last real excitement I had was back in late April with the release of the original GeForce 3.

 

[salman327]

Me too, maybe some more comp will lower the price of those 8500's even cheaper! As if they're not cheap enough already (Considering price/performance ratio)

 

[GTaudiophile]

Well, I'll be ready to jump back on the nVidia bandwagon as soon as their DVD-decoding is proven as good or better than ATi's. Their 2D must also be as good across the board.

 

[ViRGE]

What exactly will be the big deal about the GF4? The memory clock is only 20% faster than a stock Ti500, and while the core is also faster, I don't see how the GF4 is nessisarily going to be much faster. Along the same lines, it isn't introducing any new rendering features(the GF3 introduced programmable pixel shader, ect), although it breaks even on AA, as it comes with 1 new mode. That said however, am I missing something here? I just can't seem to find anything about the GF4 to get excited about.

 

[NFS4]

Did someone say SLI mode????????????:Q:Q:Q:Q

 

[Sunner]

Im expecting quite a bit from the NV25, nVidia allways seem to get it really right the second time around(or the second version of the same architecture if you will, TNT1 vs TNT2, GF1 vs GF2).

 

[Sugadaddy]

<< Did someone say SLI mode????????????:Q:Q:Q:Q >>




yes, and someone else answered 1000$ for a vid card...

 

[JellyBaby]

When is Doom 3 due? A GF4 will be bigtime overkill especially with SLI invoked unless game devs. give us some video intensive stuff and soon. Heck you could easily argue the GF3 is still overkill.

 

[jm0ris0n]

SLI....

Yes they did. Also I heard them mention something about saturating a 33mhz pci bus, unless we go out and buy one of them new dual agp boards

 

[SnowPunk98]

They are gonna be AGP right? Are we gonna see dual AGP boards? otherwise SLI is lame

 

[AGodspeed]

That said however, am I missing something here? I just can't seem to find anything about the GF4 to get excited about.

Besides the specs I listed in my first post, a couple of other features will be added. This includes a second vertex shader! Wait another month for the reviews to pour in.

 

[GTaudiophile]

More speed to me is blah! The best thing about NV25 is the built-in MPEG2 decoder. nVidia is saying, "you're right, ATi has superior DVD quality, and it's about damned time we tried to catch up!"

 

[Nvidia2000]

SLI? kewl
I guess it would be 2x NV25 on the same board? otherwise how can u have 2x agp boards on 1agp slot? hehe

 

[Gomce]

NVIDIA's hype begins to fade
no games for the GF256 even, let along GTS or GF3 ...
If NVidia doesn't make a company to design games it's newest killer cards for which the games come 3 years afterwards will not be as interesting...and Nvidia will start losing shares and eventually end like the 3dfx

"World's fastest graphic processor" ..right, for what? CS, game that runs on TNT1 ? or UT, or Quake so you can play it in 1600x1200 12xAA? right.! you can feel the game if it is good even at 640x480...you don't need so pumped up eye candy for good games which unfortunately come once in every 2-3 years.
When I come to think of it, if XBox becomes too successful there wont be any PC game makers

 

[N8Magic]

<< They are gonna be AGP right? Are we gonna see dual AGP boards? otherwise SLI is lame >>



Nope, no dual AGP boards. (for that purpose anyways)

They will do the SLI like the Voodoo5 5500, having 2 or more GPU's on one card. Don't forget that nVidia bought out all of 3Dfx's intellectual property and hired some of their best engineers. I imagine this won't be the last time we see 3Dfx technology in nVidia boards.

 

[Bovinicus]

I agree with audiophile, I like the addition of an MPEG2 decoder onboard. Once this core hits the streets, I may be thinking of an MX version of it so I can have the feature set of the GF4 with the performance of the GF3. =)

 

[JellyBaby]

Gomce, yup. For that and other reasons I wouldn't be surprised if the "6 month refresh cycle" ends with the GF4 launch. There's no sense in flooding the market with hardware that isn't needed.

Where are the GF3 games???????

 

[llc00ljoel]

what are the chances of a PCI version and AGP version that can SLI together? i vaguely remember metabyte coming up with some technology like that a looooong time ago, but it never panned out...

 

[jeffrey]

"That said however, am I missing something here? I just can't seem to find anything about the GF4 to get excited about."


A 50% increase in the number of rendering pipelines.
A 20% increase in the memory bandwith.
A 100% increase in vertex shaders.
All running with a core that is 25% faster than a TI500 and 50% faster than the GeForce3 and you think that you are missing something??

The think to get excited about is the fact that the videocard bottleneck is getting openned-up!

 

[millsy]

I agree with Gomce

It will be interesting to see the benchmarks of these babies, but currently I can't see how much better image quality can get.
Prices will be high, but cool card though.
Is there any game out there that takes full advantage of the 8500 and stresses it to its limits??

 

[TimeKeeper]

I really don't need to know how good GF4 will be...I just hope it come out asap!!!!!
Hell...I can't afford it, but I am sure when GF4 debute, I can afford GF3

 

[Charles]

<< The GeForce4's specs have been "known" for a couple of weeks now, but I thought it would be cool to post what the pics might look like. GeForce4 Specs for Those That Didn't Already Know: GeForce4 (NV25): - Core Clock 300 MHz - Mem Clock 600 MHz - Memory 128MB DDR - Full MPEG2 Decoder / TV-OUT Encoder / TMDS / 2 RAMDAC / SLI Mode This is what I want. >>

I think I'd get GeForce4 MX.

 

[Imaginer]

Sure it is powerful but how much power do you really need for games? For that much money, I can buy something else more interesting instead of a card for a computer that increases framerate by only 10% when my old card does a good job already.

That, for even $300, I definitely expect the card to do much more than just play games, do tv out, and all the other features in a gamer's card. I think it is insane to have people shelling out lots of money just because.

As for me, expect me to hold out a few years for a card that performs to the standards a few years from now, has HD turner encode and decode abilities, eye candy, VIVO, DVD, capture card/tv tuner.