Albatron GF4 Ti4280 - Comparison and Benchmarks

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Comparing The Cards

I borrowed the Albatron Ti4200 128MB AGP 4x version from my good ol' roommate Mr. Pibb.  Comparing the new with the old, you can see very little differences.  The top card is the Albatron Ti4280 while the bottom is the regular Ti4200. 

  

The minor differences is that there are a few capacitors here and there.  Nothing much.  The major difference is that the Ti4280 uses the Philips chip for the video in capability.

Another difference is that the Ti4280 uses 3.6ns ramchips while the Ti4200 uses 4.0ns ramchips.  Theoretically, this could be crucial when it comes to overclocking the card.  

Test Setup

1. AMD Athlon XP 1700+ T-Bred (1.46GHZ @ 1.93GHZ...11 x 175)

2. Asus A7V8X (with VIA's Hyperion Drivers)

3. 256MB Samsung PC2700

4. Maxtor ATA100 30gb 7200rpm

5. Generic 52x CDRom

6. Antec SX830

7. Vantec 420watt power supply

8. Swiftech MCX462+

Cards Compared To

1. Albatron Geforce 4 Ti4200 128MB

nVidia drivers Detonator 41.09 were installed for testing. 

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Benchmarks

1. 3DMark01SE Build 330

2. Commanche 4

3. Dungeon Siege

4. Code Creatures

It is clearly shown here that AGP 8x does not have much of an affect on the 3DMark score, improving by only a mere 100 points.  After the maximum overclock that I was able to achieve, I had a nice boost in 1000 points.  I didn't think it was that bad, as I didn't spend much time tweaking Windows for more points.  This was straight on the video card itself.

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The benchmark for Commanche 4 also proves that AGP 8x does not help performance by much, if any at all.  I was somewhat disappointed to see that the overclocked results only helped gain an average of 1 fps during the benchmark. 

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Dungeon Siege was a game I found to be quite graphic intense when multiple players and computer enemies join together on the screen.  Looking at the results, having AGP 8x did not help increase performance much.  Similar to Commanche 4, the overclocked results gained little to no increase.

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Although the last two gaming benchmarks showed little gain in performance under AGP 8X and overclocked environments, Code Creatures seems to love extra boost in MHZ in the graphics core and memory.  If I were able gain about 3 fps in such an intensive graphics benchmark, it must be a good sign to gaming freaks out there.  Take a look at Counterstrike for example, overclocking your video card will not make the game any faster than it already is.  The engine is too old for you to notice any performance increase, unless of course, you're using a GeForce 2 or an older ATI video card.

Next: Overclocking And Conclusion >>
 

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