GeForce2 MX 400 vs GeForce4 MX 440 SE DDR Test In 11 Games (Capture Card)

MSI NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400 64 MB AGP vs
GeForce4 MX 440 SE 64 bit DDR 64 MB vs
GeForce4 MX 440 SE 128 bit DDR 64 MB

HWI / GPU-Z Specs:

All Games are in 1024x768

0:00 Intro
0:12 Counter Strike 1.6
0:56 Half Life
1:54 Soldier of Fortune
2:19 Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix
2:46 Call of Duty 2
3:11 Battlefield 1942
3:50 FlatOut
4:26 FlatOut - driver 45.23
5:02 Need for Speed: Underground 2
5:43 Far Cry
6:25 Half Life 2
7:16 Mafia

PC Specs:
Motherboard: Asus P5P800-VM
CPU: Intel Pentium D 945 3.4 GHz (Dual Core)
GPU: GeForce2 MX 400 or GeForce4 MX 440 SE DDR
RAM: 2GB DDR1 Kinston 400MHz (1+1)
Windows XP Professional 32 bit SP3

Drivers:
GeForce2 MX 400 - 71.89 for all games and 45.23 for FlatOut
GeForce4 MX 440 SE - 71.89 for all games and 45.23 for FlatOut (for both 64 and 128 bit)

Capture Card: HDMI Video Capture - HDMI to USB
Together with VGA+Audio to HDMI Convertor

Game Settings:

Counter Strike 1.6
Renderer: OpenGL
Display Mode: Normal
Resolution: 1024x768

Half Life
Renderer: OpenGL
Display Mode: Normal
Resolution: 1024x768
Color Quality: Highest (32 bit)

Soldier of Fortune ver. 1.07fx86F
Dynamic Video Settings
Ghoul Light Method: Hardware
Specular Lighting: On
Detail Texturing: On
Detail Texturing Range:2.5 / 15
Texture Mode: Mipped Bilinear
Anisotropic Filtering: On
Field of View: VERT 78.6

Video System Settings
Video Driver: Default OpenGL
Full Screen: Yes
Bitdepth: Auto (Same as Desktop 32 bit)
Alternate Simple Textures: Off
Texture Quality: High
Skin Texture Quality: High
Anisotropic Filtering: 2 / 15
Texture Magnification Filter: None
Texture Format: (Default)
Translucent Texture Format: (Default)

Resolution: 6: 1024 x 768 (4:3 1.333)

Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix
Light Flares: Simple
Resolution: 1024x768
Full Screen: Yes
Texture Quality: High
Texture Filter: Trilinear
Vertical Sync: Off
Quincunx Multisampling: Off
Anisotropic Filtering Level: Lowest
UI Texture Quality: High
Colors: Auto (Same as Desktop 32 bit)
FSAA: Off
Alias Shaders: Off
Advanced Texturing: On
Curve Subdivisions: Medium
Image Format: DXT5 Compressed
Alpha Image Format: DXT5 Compressed
OPENGL Extensions
Generic: Yes
ATI or NVIDIA Specific: Yes

Call of Duty 2
Resolution: 1024x768
Frequency: 60 Hz
Aspect Ratio: Auto
Texture Filtering: Bilinear
Anti-Alliasing: Off
Rendering Method: DirectX7
Optimization for SLI: Off
Soften Smoke Edges: off
Number of Corpses: Normal
Textures:
Texture Resolution: Extra
Map: Extra
Mirror Map: Extra

Battlefield 1942
Video Performance: High
Display Mode: 1024x768 32bit
Graphics Quality: High
Effects Quality: High
Environment Mapping: Yes
Lightmaps: Yes
Shadows: Yes
Texture Quality: 80%
View Distance: 100%
Alternative Spawn Interface: No
Number of Bots: 50%
CPU-Time Given to AI: 10%

FlatOut
Resolution: 1024x768x32
Anisotropic Filter: Lowest
Antialiasing: None
Frequency: Default
Triple Buffering: Yes
Hardware 3D: No

Layer Overlap: Yes
Racemap: On
Figurine: On
View Distance: Highest
Track quality: Highest
Texture Quality: (75%)

Need for Speed Underground 2
Resolution: 1024x768
Level of Detail 25%
Car Reflection Update Rate: Lowest
Car Reflection Detail: Low
Car Shadow Neon: Highest
Car Headlight: Off
Car Geometry Detail: Low
Crowds: Off
World Detail: 33%
Road Reflection Detail: Lowest
Light Trails: Off
Light Glow: On
Particle System: Off
Motion Blur: Off
Fog: Off
Depth of Field: Off
Full Screen Anti aliasing: Lowest
Tinting: On
Horizon Fog: Off
Overbright: Off
Enhanced Contrast: Off
Rain Splatter: Off
Texture Filtering: Lowest
Vsync: Off

Far Cry (For MX and older cards)
Machine Specs: Medium
Enable Gore: Yes
Resolution: 1024x768x32
Anti Aliasing: None
Vsync: Off
Texture Quality: Low
Texture Filter Quality: Bilinear
Anisotropic Filtering Level: 1
Particle Count: Low
Special Effects Quality: Low
Environment Quality: Own
Shadow Quality: Low
Water Quality: Low
Lighting Quality: Low

Half Life 2 Low (for MX and older cards)
Resolution: 1024x768
Model Details: High
Texture Details: High
Shader Details: High
Water Details: Simple Reflections
Shadows Details: Low
Game UI Color Correct: Off
Anti Aliasing: None
Filtering Mode: Bilinear
Vsync: Off
Game UI hdr Level 0
Hardware DirectX: 7.0
Software DirectX: 9.0

Mafia Higher stress (MX Series)
Resolution: 1024x768
Anti-Aliasing: 2x (Important)
Triple Buffering: No
V Sync: No
Frequency: Default
Color depth: 32 bit
Texture Quality:
Truecolor: NO
Low resolution: No
Compressed: No
Shadow quality
Truecolor: Yes
Only software mixing: Off
Turn off EAX: Yes

Hardware transformations and lighting: yes
Multi-pass rendering : No
Cut: No
W Buffer: Yes

Level of Detail: Highest
Visibility (Draw Distance): Highest
Blood: Lowest
Game effects: High
Sounds: High
Shadows: Highest
Particle effects : High

[RetroGamingKingdom]

GeForce2 MX 400 was released on March 3rd, 2001
GeForce4 MX 440 SE (NV17) was released in 2002
Software like MSI Afterburner or GPU-Z can't detect
correctly memory clock on older cards with SDR memory.
It's called "fake DDR detection".
This is probably caused by MPLL doubling
That's why I turned off VRAM frequency monitoring
on some older SDR cards.

[erikmerchant]

Genuinely surprised at how much better the 128bit model was in performance. Will have to keep my eyes open for one of them.

[Agoz]

Used the Elsa Gladiac 511 with 64mb 128b in 2000-2004 as a gaming card lol, was a good cheap card. 😅 Still in my retro collection 😊

[dfxvoodoocards]

In older games the MX400 is just slightly slower than the MX440 SE 64-bit.

[JohnSmith-iucj]

I don’t understand why the cpu load is identical in counter strike even though one card has 110 and the other has 180fps. Why?