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Performance
Comparison
The
Geforce2 MX400 vs. The Geforce2 Ti
by Mark
Rubrico
The
cards
Both
the Geforce2 MX400 and and the Geforce2 Titanium cards
were Inno3d products. The Inno3d Tornado Geforce2
Titanium was clocked at its default speed. It featured
a core clocked at 250 mhz and 64 Megabytes of 400
Mhz ( DDR ) memory. Surprisingly, the Inno3D Geforce2
MX400, had its memory ( 32 Megabytes ) clocked at
184 mhz, instead of the default 166 mhz. This is a
full 10% memory overclock from the NVIDIA specification!
Of course a 10% increase in bandwidth is a big bonus
since the MX400 is quite bandwidth limited to begin
with. The MX400's core was clocked at 200 mhz at default
following NVIDIA's specifications.
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Inno3D
Geforce2 MX400
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Inno3D
Geforce2 Titanium
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Default
Core Clock / Memory Clock
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Core
: 200 Mhz Mem : 184 Mhz
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Core
: 250 Mhz Mem : 400 Mhz |
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Default
Fillrate
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Pixel
: 400 Mpixels Texel :800 Mtexels |
Pixel
: 1 Gpixels Texel : 2 Gtexels |
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Default
Bandwidth
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2.944
GB/s |
6.4
GB/s |
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Overclocked
Core Clock / Memory Clock
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Core
: 220 Mhz Mem
: 215 Mhz
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Core
: 280 Mhz Mem : 465 Mhz |
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Effective
Fillrate
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Pixel
: 440 Mpixels Texel :880 Mtexels |
Pixel
: 1.12 Gpixels Texel : 2.24Gtexels |
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Effective
Bandwidth
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3.440
GB/s |
7.440
GB/s |
Card
Specifications
The
chart above shows how much the cards were overclocked.
The cards overclocked bit higher than those numbers
( 230/220 for the MX400 and 290/480 for the Geforce2
ti ) but they were dropped back to those numbers above
when even the slightest artifacts were noticed.
The Inno3d Geforce2 MX400's memory overclocked to 215
Mhz from its default 184 Mhz, almost a 17% increase.
Compared to the NVidia default specification for an
MX400's memory clock ( 166 Mhz), this is over 30% faster!
The Inno3D MX400's core toppled out at 220Mz, a 10%
overclock. However, since these cards are being limited
by there bandwidths even before saturating there fillrates,
an increase in bandwidth ( Memory ) will deliver more
performance.
With
a 12% increase in its core clocked when overclocked,
the GeForce2 Ti's fillrate is upped to an impressive
1.12GPixels ( 2.24 GTexels ). And though its 16% memory
overclock ( from 400 to 465mhz ) is only about half
as much as the MX400's overclock, it enables the Geforce
2 Ti to perform at Ultra levels. Which will be very
handy when it comes to high resolution and FSAA gaming
( being both bandwidth intensive ).
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