Softquadroed GeForce3 Ti500 or GeForce4 4600?

[froggyboy]

I'm planning to upgrade my computer and right now I don't know which is the best solution, a softquadroed GeForce3 Ti500 or a new GeForce4 4600.
I would apreciate any suggestion.
Thanxs.

[the-la]

Actually I have the same question. I would really appreciated if someone can give us some suggestion.

Their cost are pretty much the same, but with 128MB memory, will GF4 perform much better in texture-shaded mode?

[snarg]

Some reports back are now saying the Geforce 4 is slightly slower than the 3. But this could be primarily down to a few things like the drivers are still needing optimised yet for applications.

But overall if you are able to get a 4 for the price of the 3 then way to go. Its logical sense as the cards power is huge.

Maya 5 when its released will have nice new extensions into place optimised for cards like the DCC

[mweier]

Only the GeForce 4 MX is ranking slower than any of the GF3 cards...

The GF4 Ti4600 & Ti4400 cards seem to be smoking any GF3 cards out there... We'll be trying one here this week so I'll let you know about 4600 issues/recommendations...

[mweier]

Got the eVGA Ti4600 with dualhead support - seems SWEET for such an inexpensive card. I've tested frame rates on playblasts & random mouse pans/dollys in viewports & it seems to be outperforming our Oxygen GVX210's by a factor of nearly 1.75 to 1.

I can't say I'm doing the most accurate benchmarks, since the GF4 Ti4600 is on a dual Athlon 1800+MP, whereas the Oxygen card is on a dual PIII 933, but the GF4 is certainly performing great (despite being "unsupported" by A|W).

I haven't tried any Paint Effects or Artisan stuff yet, but after 2 weeks of production environment work, the hypershade/hypergraph/multilister/viewports all seem to be working just great on a scene chock full of SubD & NURBS. I'm glad I saved the $500 extra or so it would take to get an officially supported card! I'm not saying I wouldn't be happier with a FireGL8800 or a Quadro 4, but the Ti cards definitely give a pretty great bang for the buck.

[zeerow]

Great! Mine's on its way as we speak!
Thanks!
Mike