MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT vs MSI GEFORCE4 Ti4200 REVIEW BY ULTIMATE HARDWARE

MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT vs MSI GEFORCE4 Ti4200

"In this article we test the MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT against the MSI GEFORCE4 Ti4200 as requested by a reader! Software used for benchmarking was:- 3dmark 2001 SE, 3dmark 2003, Glexcess, Quake III Arena, Serious Sam the Second Encounter and Unreal Tournament 2003."

IS IT WORTH UPGRADING FROM A GEFORCE4 Ti4200 TO A GEFORCE 5900 XT?

NAME	CHIPSET	GPU SPEED	MEMORY	MEMORY INTERFACE	MEMORY SPEED	AGP SPEED
MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT	NV35	390MHZ	128MB	256BIT	700MHZ DDR	8x
MSI GEFORCE4 Ti4200	NV28	250MHZ	128MB	128BIT	512MHZ DDR	8x
NAME	CHIPSET	GPU SPEED	MEMORY	MEMORY INTERFACE	MEMORY SPEED	AGP SPEED

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

PROCESSOR	AMD ATHLON XP 2500
VIDEO CARD	MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT
	MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200
NVIDIA DRIVER	FORCEWARE v53.03
MOTHERBOARD	ASROCK K7S8XE+
MEMORY	512MB CRUCIAL PC2700 DDR
OPERATING SYSTEM	WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 1
DIRECTX VERSION	v9.0b

SYNTHETIC BENCHMARKS

3DMARK 2001 SE

	12608
	10939

3DMARK 2003

	4835
	1481

GLEXCESS

	10918
	6926

MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200

COMMENT - "The MSI GeForce 5900 XT starts off strongly with 3dmark 2001 SE and delivers a 14% increase in performance over the MSI GeForce4 Ti4200. With 3dmark 2003 we witness a huge 70% increase in performance for the MSI GeForce 5900 XT. However this was to be expected because the MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 is a DX8 video card and this is a DX9 benchmark so it was unable to run the mother nature game demo which accounts for approx 1000 points. Using Glexcess which unlike 3dmark is an opengl benchmark the MSI GeForce 5900 XT delivers a 37% increase in performance which once again is very impressive."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
3DMARK 2001 SE
1024x768 Resolution
32Bit color
D3D Hardware T&L
Antialiasing Disabled
Double Frame Buffer
Compressed Texture Format
24Bit Z-Buffer Depth
3DMARK 2003
1024x768 Resolution
No Pixel Processing
Optimal Texture Filtering
4x Max Anisotropy
Optimal Vertex Shaders
No Repeat Tests
No Fixed Framerate
GLEXCESS5
1024x768 Resolution
Scene 1 Intro
Scene 2 Waver
Scene 3 Facescape
Scene 4 Exploding Logo

QUAKE III ARENA

800x600

	240
	232

1024x768

	239
	215

1280x1024

	237
	198

1024x768 (4xAA)

	222
	98

1024x768 (4xAA & 8xAF)

	199
	81

MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Four.dm68 Benchmark
32Bit Colour Depth
Texture Compress Disabled
Lightmap Lighting
High Geometric Detail
Full Texture Detail
Trilinear Texture Filtering

COMMENT - "The MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 puts in a good performance so the MSI GeForce 5900 XT was only able to deliver between a 4% to 17% increase in performance. However once we enable things like anti-aliasing the MSI GeForce 5900 XT is 56% faster and with anistropic filtering also enabled it's an impressive 60% faster."

SERIOUS SAM SE

ELEPHANT ATRIUM

	120
	75

CITADEL

	113
	49

GRAND CATHEDRAL

	89
	57

MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
1024x768 Resolution
Fullscreen Enabled
Extreme Quality Settings
Large Texture Size
Optimal Texture Quality
Detail Textures Enabled

COMMENT - "The MSI GeForce 5900 XT delivers impressive numbers and gives a performance gain between 36% to 57% faster than the MSI GeForce4 Ti4200."

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003
FLYBY

800x600

	153
	145

1024x768

	152
	100

1280x1024

	135
	66

MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200

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

COMMENT - "The MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 is able to keep up with the MSI GeForce 5900 XT at lower resolutions but once the resolution increases so does the gap between it and the MSI GeForce 5900 XT."

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003
FLYBY (4xAA & 8xAF)

800x600

	138
	36

1024x768

	108
	23

1280x1024

	75
	13

MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200

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

COMMENT - "When using standard features the MSI GeForce 5900 XT is between 6% to 52% faster than the MSI GeForce4 Ti4200, with 4xAA and 8xAF the MSI GeForce 5900 XT is between 74% to 83% faster which is VERY impressive."

CONCLUSION - "The MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 used to be a decent video card and even today can keep up with most video cards below in it's price range. The problem with the MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 is the poor anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering performance, this can be seen clearly in the Unreal Tournament 2003 4xAA with 8xAF results. The AMD Athlon XP 2500 used in this review would be a good cpu to use with the MSI GeForce4 Ti4200, anything more powerful would be a waste and would offer little performance increase. The MSI GeForce 5900 XT however is very different, it was being held back by the AMD Athlon XP 2500 and has alot more performance to give when used with a more powerful cpu."

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