Thursday, May 30, 2002

Introduction

The Ti4600 currently stands at the pinnacle of Nvidia's graphics card products, and Asus - a manufacturer long known for its diverse offerings - has always been quick to adopt the latest and greatest technologies to come from that company. As a direct result of this arrangement, we have before us today the Asus V8460, a direct decendant of the Nvidia Ti4600 reference board.

The V8460 is composed of a 300MHz GPU, a 350MHz RAMDAC, and 128MB of memory operating at upto 650MHz -- all of which makes it about 10% - 12% faster than the original Ti4400.

Much like the latter, though, the GeForce 4's of the Ti4600 feature two Vertex Shaders for Pixel Shading, and faster rendering of 3D textures.

Today, we'll be focused primarily on analyzing the performance of the V8460, so for more details on the various technological innovations of the GeForce 4, we highly reccomend reviewing our analysis of the Ti4400.

As far as the Asus V8460 is concerned, let's just say that it sticks very close to the Nvidia reference design specs -- in effect, opting for stability and solid design over higher clock speeds.

Next: Specifications

Asus V8460 Ultra Ti4600