Putting aside the obvious things like quality of board, brand and speed of the ram used, you would think that all GF4 MX440's would be about the same performance, wouldn't you?
Well recently I conducted my own little experiment due to buying these cards in bulk for the shop, with the same drivers and system one brand 3Dbenchmarked at a very low 2,200 points in 2001SE where as another was nearly 6,000.
So finally my question: the slow card was a GF4 440MX SE and the other just plain GF4 440MX, so what does the SE stand for? all I could find on the net was second edition, but that wouldn't make these cards any slower, are they SDram and not DDR? that could be it? have we bought cut down versions of an already cut down chip?
Note* these are just cheap generic cards.
Martin. Replying helps further our knowledge, without comment leaves us wondering.
Well recently I conducted my own little experiment due to buying these cards in bulk for the shop, with the same drivers and system one brand 3Dbenchmarked at a very low 2,200 points in 2001SE where as another was nearly 6,000.
So finally my question: the slow card was a GF4 440MX SE and the other just plain GF4 440MX, so what does the SE stand for? all I could find on the net was second edition, but that wouldn't make these cards any slower, are they SDram and not DDR? that could be it? have we bought cut down versions of an already cut down chip?
Note* these are just cheap generic cards.
Martin. Replying helps further our knowledge, without comment leaves us wondering.
