Some makers of graphics cards have already started to unveil and sell their new products based on the new versions of NVIDIA’s GeForce4 Titanium graphics processors recently, on the same time, the company itself has not performed any official announcements of these chips, namely, GeForce4 Ti4200 with AGP 8x, GeForce4 Ti4800SE and GeForce4 Ti4800.

Well, those who wait for NVIDIA to unveil these GPUs officially should better forget about that as there are currently no plans to make the loud announcement. Moreover, NVIDIA will not promote the GeForce4 Ti4800SE in the USA due to unknown reason that is not to be disclosed at this time.

The GeForce4 Ti4800SE is based on the well-known GeForce4 Titanium architecture but with AGP 8x support. The Ti4800SE performance should be between Ti4400 and Ti4600, thus, do not expect this one to outperform the GeForce4 Ti4600 in typical applications despite of the higher model number. The GeForce4 Ti4800SE based graphics cards should run at 275MHz for core and 550MHz for memory; in contrast, the GeForce4 Ti4800 and Ti4600 run at 300/650MHz for GPU/RAM.

It seems that the Santa Clara, California-based developer of graphics chips simply wants to quietly substitute the GeForce4 Titanium series with the same core but with AGP 8x support. Unfortunately, graphics card makers definitely want to earn a little bit more on these pseudo-new GPUs, hence, the cost of actual products with AGP 8x is higher compared to the same devices but with AGP 4x even despite of the fact that there are hardly any real advantages between them.