In the above we can instantly notice how little speed difference there is between the overclocked Geforce 4 Ti's. The Ti500 maintains to stay faster than the MX440 but the gap narrows in when Quincunx FSSA is enabled.

Only at the higher more demanding resolutions is the Ti4600 able to distance itself from the other Ti 4400/4200 cards while both the MX440 and Ti500 are brought to their knees at 1600x1200 with FSSA.

Comanche 4 remains wanting more CPU power than anything else and so we see only marginal speed improvements over the default clocked cards. We may explain this down to the game having many threads which all need to be executed in a tightly schedule leaving the CPU to be the limiting factor in this particular game.

The Ti4600 set to 315/735 on a 2.87GHz Pentium 4 setup (22x130MHz FSB) does carry a reward of a speed boost when using FSSA however it's nothing you'll want to be writing a letter home about. Without FSSA enabled the gained performance is much higher but only until the lack of memory bandwidth kicks in. This gives you an idea of how much important memory performance on 3D cards actually is.

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