What are the capabilities and limitations of NVIDIA’s new NV31 and NV34 graphics chips and the new GeForce FX cards they’ll be rolling out on? Do these new products share enough technology with NVIDIA’s high-end NV30-based products to be worthy of the GeForce FX name, or is NVIDIA still keeping the mainstream a generation behind? Read on to find out. The GeForce4 MX’s replacements, the NV34-powered GeForce FX 52 Ultra, have rather small shoes to fill, so it should be easy for them to impress. The GeForce4 MX, on the other hand, wasn’t favored by many, and its lack of hardware pixel and vertex shaders isn’t likely to be missed by anyone. The GeForce4 Ti 4200 will be replaced by NVIDIA’s new GeForce FX 5600 Ultra, which will have a tough act to follow.

In 2002, GeForce4 Ti 4200 received glowing accolades from reviewers and held the PC graphics price/performance crown for the vast majority the year many of us will be sad to see the product taken out behind the barn. Instead, they wait for new technologies to trickle down to affordable prices in more mainstream products.įor more than a year, the GeForce4 MX and GeForce4 Ti 4200 chips have occupied the mainstream and performance segments of NVIDIA’s product catalog, but they’re being put to pasture in favor of new additions to the GeForce FX line. Though the GeForce FX 5800 Ultra has become everyone’s favorite whipping boy over the past few months, the vast majority of the market doesn’t buy flagship products like the 5800 Ultra. T ODAY NVIDIA UNVEILS its long-awaited NV31 and NV34 graphics chips, which will bring the GeForce FX name down to price points that most of us can afford in what will hopefully be enough volume to meet demand.

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