Apple-Nvidia
GeForce4 MX Video Card
Mac / ADC / VGA
With the GeForce4 MX graphics processing units (GPUs), NVIDIA provides a new level of cost-effective, high-performance graphics to the mainstream computer user.
With its incomparable nView™ multi-display architecture, Lightspeed Memory Architecture II, and Accuview Antialiasing™ engine, the GeForce4 MX series delivers feature-rich, leading-edge graphics technology, performance and flexibility.
The NVIDIA GeForce4 MX delivers 1.1 billion textured pixels per second, kicking games and 3D graphics into high gear with hardware transform and lighting (T&L), per-pixel shading and drop-dead gorgeous effects at high resolutions. This graphics processor takes over the transform and lighting calculation functions from the Power Mac G4's central processing unit (CPU), enabling more robust collision detection, better pathing algorithms and more realistic physics.
The NVIDIA GeForce4 MX supports Quartz Extreme
Mac OS X v10.2 Jaguar and Mac OS X 10.3 use the PowerPC G4 Velocity Engine to speed 2D graphics (especially noticeable in dual processor Power Mac G4 systems). And Mac OS X unleashes Quartz Extreme – a breakthrough combination of OpenGL (the 3D API preferred by leading game developers) and the Power Mac G4's advanced graphics cards – to accelerate the compositing of 2D, 3D and QuickTime content using your graphics card instead of the main CPU. This gives the Power Mac G4 an order-of-magnitude advance in graphics capabilities – including color, lighting, modeling, transformations, texture mapping, alpha blending, motion blur and more.
To provide full support for dual displays, the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX card features both ADC and VGA connectors.
AGP capable Macintosh required to use this card. To directly connect an ADC display to this video card, you must have a Power Macintosh Gigabit Ethernet or later system. AGP based "Sawtooth" machines do not have the physical logic board connection for the 28v output required.