SAPPHIRE RADEON 9200 REVIEW

"Sapphire Radeon 9200 review testing the Sapphire Radeon 9200 against the XFX GeForce 5200, MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 and the Gainward GeForce4 mx440. Software used during testing was:- 3dmark 2001 SE, 3dmark 2003, Quake 3 Arena, Serious Sam SE and Unreal Tournament 2003."

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

PROCESSOR	AMD ATHLON XP 2500
VIDEO CARD	SAPPHIRE RADEON 9200
	XFX GEFORCE 5200
	MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200
	GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX 440
ATI DRIVER	CATALYST v3.5
NVIDIA DRIVER	DETONATOR v44.03
MOTHERBOARD	ASROCK K7S8X
MEMORY	512MB CRUCIAL PC2700 DDR
OPERATING SYSTEM	WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 1
DIRECTX VERSION	v9.0a

SERIOUS SAM SE

800x600

	157
	180
	160
	152

1024x768

	129
	171
	120
	108

1280x1024

	94
	162
	99
	87

SAPPHIRE RADEON 9200 MSI GEFORCE TI4200
XFX GEFORCE 5200 GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX 440

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Elephant Atrium demo
Fullscreen Enabled
Quality Settings
Large Texture Size
Optimal Texture Quality
Detail Textures Enabled

COMMENT - "The Sapphire Radeon 9200, XFX GeForce 5200 and Gainward GeForce4 MX 440 all deliver roughly the same very playable performance. The MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 starts off strongly and finishes a clear 63fps ahead of the XFX GeForce 5200.

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003

800x600

	77
	150
	96
	88

1024x768

	51
	117
	64
	58

1280x1024

	35
	80
	43
	39

SAPPHIRE RADEON 9200 MSI GEFORCE TI4200
XFX GEFORCE 5200 GAINWARD GEFORCE4 MX 440

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Antalus Benchmark
Flyby Benchmark
Character Shadows Enabled
Decals Enabled
Dynamic Lighting Enabled
Detail Textures Enabled
Projectors Enabled
Foliage Enabled

COMMENT - "The Sapphire Radeon 9200 puts in a very poor performance with this game, it was beaten by all of the video cards tested. Once again the MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 puts in a stonking performance and delivers a performance which is way ahead of the other video cards."

CONCLUSION - "The Sapphire Radeon 9200 offers excellent anisotropic filtering performance and image quality. The video card was very stable and there are no problems to report. Unfortunately the Sapphire Radeon 9200 suffers from a general lack of power, it's performance with certain games is lacking especially if you enable fsaa. It's support for 8x Agp offers no real performance increase and is worthless right now. It's performance in general is closer to the Gainward GeForce4 MX 440 than the latest budget video card from nvidia the XFX GeForce 5200."

SAPPHIRE RADEON 9200 REVIEW INDEX

PAGE 1 - SAPPHIRE RADEON 9200 INTRODUCTION

PAGE 2 - QUAKE III ARENA

PAGE 3 - SERIOUS SAM SE AND UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003

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