Specifications

Below is a brief rundown of the GeForce4 Titanium specifications which differ from the GeForce4 MX specifications in a few significant areas such as dual Vertex shaders in the Titanium and also how it ironically lacks a few video and TV features that the MX has. One would assume that the Titanium, being the end-all-be-all of NVIDIA product skews, would be a powerhouse that encompasses the features of its subordinates.

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Dual programmable vertex shaders

• Procedural deformations
  
• Real-time hair and fur shading
  
• Key frame animation interpolation
  
• Programmable matrix palette skinning
  
• Morphing
  
• Lens effects: fish eye, wide angle, fresnel effects, water refraction

Programmable pixel shaders

• Dot3 bump mapping
  
• Anisotropic filtering
  
• Environmental bump mapping (EMBM)
  
• Procedural textures
  
• Per-pixel reflections
  
• Phong-style lighting for per-pixel accuracy

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Accuview - High-resolution anti aliasing

• Accuview technology delivers highest performance an no-penalty Quincunx AA quality
  
• New sub-pixel sample locations provide improved AA quality

Other stats

• 128MB world's fastest DDR Memory
  
• 10.4 GB/sec Memory Bandwidth
  
• 4.8 Billion AA samples per second fill rate
  
• 136 million vertices/sec Peak Vertex Processing Rate
  
• 1.23 trillion operations/sec
  
• On-board TV-out support up to 1024x768 resolution
  
• On-board DVI support up to 1280x1024 resolution
  
• High-quality HDTV/DVD playback
  
• NVIDIA video processing engine (VPE)
  
• Full acceleration for Microsoft DirectX 8.1 and OpenGL 1.3 ICD
  
• AGP 4X support
  
• Integrated 350MHz RAMDAC, resolution up to 2048x1536 (VGA output), True Color @ 60Hz
  
• WinFastDVD, Colorific, 3Deep, True Internet Color and Cult3D included
  
• Leadtek WinFox system Utility
  
• 2 Full Game Bundled (DroneZ and Gunlok)

The DVI spec

One of the things we expect to see improvde is the current DVI specifications. Developed by Silicon Image, the DVI specification is a true digital video interface designed to deliver high quality graphics from the video card into an LCD display. The current speed varies from 1.65Gbit/sec and up. Theoretically, this base specification supports 1920x1080 at 60Hz and can scale higher with the appropriate bandwidth.

If you notice the specifications on the GeForce4 boards, LCD resolutions are supported only up to 1280x1024. We’re starting to see UXGA LCD panels appearing on notebooks that are capable of 1600x1200 so it won’t be long before those resolutions trickle down into desktop LCDs. Something to note is that it is also possible to have CRT displays that use the DVI interface. This reduces the need for thick cables that are prone to damage and interference.