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GEFORCE FX 5200 PERFORMANCE

"In this article we test the Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 using 1944 Battle of the Bulge, Aurora Watching, Cronicles of Riddick, Comanche4, Codename Panzers Phase Two, Delta Force Extreme, Earth 2160, Far Cry, GT Legends, King Kong, Lego Star Wars, Quake 3 Arena, Quake 4, Scooter War3z, Scrapland, Serious Sam 2, Trackmania Sunrise, Tribes Vengeance, Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2004, Warhammer Dawn of War, World Racing 2 and Xpand Rally."

CineFX Engine - Powers cinematic effects beyond imagination. With advanced vertex and pixel shader capabilities, stunning and complex special effects are possible. In addition, increased horsepower delivers faster and smoother gameplay.

High-Precision Graphics - By combining the incredible dynamic range of today's state-of-the-art 3D motion pictures with 128-bit studio-precision colour, the GeForce FX GPUs bring you the industry’s best image quality for the most demanding applications.

AGP 8X - Provides double the bandwidth of AGP 4X—2.1GB/sec. vs. 1.1BG/sec. AGP 8X enables more complex models and detailed textures, creating richer and more lifelike environments. Uninterrupted data flow allows for smoother video streaming and faster, more seamless gameplay.

nView Multi-display Technology - The nView hardware and software technology combination delivers maximum flexibility for multi-display options, and provides unprecedented end-user control of the desktop experience.

Digital Vibrance Control (DVC) - Allows the user to adjust colour controls digitally to compensate for the lighting conditions of their workspace, in order to achieve accurate, bright colours in all conditions. Currently this feature is not available on Mac systems.

Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Optimizations and Support - Ensures the best performance and application compatibility for all DirectX 9 applications.

OpenGL® 1.4 Optimizations and Support - Ensures the best performance and application compatibility for all OpenGL applications.

Integrated TV Encoder - Provides best-of-class TV-out functionality for resolutions up to 1024x768.

Integrated Full Hardware MPEG-2 Decoder - Delivers full-frame, full-screen MPEG-2 video on your desktop.

New 64-phase Video Scaler - Highest quality for scaling DVD and other video to full-screen HDTV resolutions.

DVI Support - Able to drive the industry's largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays with up to 1600x1200 resolution.

350MHz RAMDACs - Supports QXGA displays with ergonomic refresh rates.

Architected for Cg - Ensures that the newest, cutting-edge special effects in applications will run flawlessly. Speeds up content creation so game developers can get their new games out to PC users faster than ever before.

Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) - Guarantees forward and backward compatibility with software drivers. Simplifies upgrading to a new NVIDIA product because all NVIDIA products work with the same driver software.

CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK ESCAPE FROM BUTCHER BAY 6 4 3 2 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 BENCHMARK SETTINGS Fullscreen Enabled Texture Quality Maximum Model Shadows Enabled Anisotropy Maximum Shadermode Auto Vertical Sync Disabled COMMENT - "After the poor performance from the GeForce FX 5200 with the two previous games we hoped for a better result with Chronicles of Riddick. However the GeForce FX 5200 was unplayable!"

COMANCHE 4 28 22 16 12 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 BENCHMARK SETTINGS Fullscreen Enabled 32Bit Colour Depth Anti-Aliasing Disabled Terrain Detail High Object Detail High Texture Quality High Water Quality High Shadows High Particle Density High COMMENT - "Comanche4 was another game which the GeForce FX 5200 struggled to deliver playable performance."

CODENAME PANZERS PHASE TWO LOW QUALITY 28 22 17 12 MEDIUM QUALITY 22 17 11 18 HIGH QUALITY 13 10 6 4 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 COMMENT - "Some people might consider 28fps to be playable and the GeForce FX 5200 can deliver that using 800x600 with low quality settings. However we found 28fps to be far too choppy for us to even consider it's performance to be playable." BENCHMARK SETTINGS "Tunis" Level 32bit Color Depth Default Refresh Rate Vsync Disabled LOW QUALITY Anti-Aliasing Disabled Shadows Disabled Texture Detail Low Bilinear MEDIUM QUALITY Anti-Aliasing 2x Shadows Normal Texture Detail Low Trilinear HIGH QUALITY Anti-Aliasing 4x Shadows Self Texture Detail High Anisotropic

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