SAPPHIRE RADEON 9200 REVIEW

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COMMENT - "I was expecting much better performance from the Sapphire Radeon 9200 than it delivered. It wasn't even able to outperform the old Gainward GeForce4 MX 440 which was a major surprise. The winner was the MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 which even delivered 200fps at the highest resolution tested and finished 68fps clear of the other video cards"

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COMMENT - "The original ATI Radeon 9000 (which the Sapphire Radeon 9200 is based on) has always suffered a large performance hit when using 4x Fsaa. Here we see the Sapphire Radeon 9200 easily beaten by ALL of the video cards tested."

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COMMENT - "The MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 and the XFX GeForce 5200 both outperform the Sapphire Radeon 9200 by quite a large margin. The Gainward GeForce4 MX 440 only supports 2x Anisotropic filtering so there are no scores for this round."

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COMMENT - "ATI video cards have always been able to deliver great anisotropic performance and image quality. Here we see the Sapphire Radeon 9200 only drop 6fps going from 2x to 8x anistropic filtering which is very impressive. The MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 dropped a total of 40fps and the XFX GeForce 5200 dropped 21fps. The Gainward GeForce4 MX 440 is only able to do 2x anisotropic filtering and it finished in last place. Although the MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 dropped the most fps when using 8x anisotropic it was still able to outperform the Sapphire Radeon 9200 by 27fps which is a good result."