FX 5200 vs R9200 - Specs Comparison

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nVidia GeForce FX 5200 vs. ATI Radeon 9200

 

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Contender B!

 

And our second contender is the FIC Radeon 9200 64MB. I've already written a full blown review of this card, so I suggest you go see it if you need to know more.

 

 

 

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Specs Comparison

Note: You can find both the FX5200 and R9200 sold under different clock speeds. Luckily, both MSI and FIC clock their cards stock at 250 core, and 400 memory, which assures a bit fairer testing. Here are their specs, side-by-side.

 

 

	NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200	ATI Radeon 9200
Core	NV34	RV280
Process	0.15 Micron	0.15 Micron
Transistors	45 Million	36 Million
Memory Interface	128-bit	128-bit
Memory Clock	200 MHz (400 DDR)	200 MHz (400 DDR)
Memory Bandwidth	6.4 GB/s	6.4 GB/s
Memory	128MB DDR, TSOP 4ns	64MB DDR, TSOP 4ns
Core Clock	250 MHz	250 MHz
AGP Bus	4x/8x	4x/8x
Triangles/s	81 Million	43 Million
Fill Rate	1.3 Gtex/s	1 Gpix/s, 2 Gtex/s
Pipelines	2 pipelines x 2 texture units	4 pipelines x 1 texture unit
Textures per unit	4	6
Vertex S. Version	2.0+	1.1
Pixel S. Version	2.0+	1.4
RAMDAC	2x350 MHz	2x400 MHz
DirextX Support	9.0	8.1
Estimated Price 128MB, No Extras	$60-$70	$60-$70

Remember, the 9200 we are testing today is only 64MB in comparison to the 128MB on the 5200, so we'll give the 9200 a little slack. Before we hit some benchmarks, lets quickly run through AA and overclocking.

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Anti Aliasing Quality

I can assure you that neither the FX 5200 or the Radeon 9200 have the brute strength to run AA as fluently as we'd all like, so take what you will from these FSAA Tester screenshots.

GF FX 5200

R9200

At 2X AA, the FX5200 and R9200 look about the same. But stepping up to 4X AA, the Radeon seems to have the edge. Pull them out side-by-side, and compare 12 and 6 clock positions and you will see; the Radeon smoothes out the jagged edges a bit better than the FX5200. Remember though, when it comes to such budget video cards, 4X AA isn't really practical at all (as you will see), so the R9200 doesn't gain much value from this.

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