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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.

GT LEGENDS LOW QUALITY 7 5 4 2 MEDIUM QUALITY 6 5 3 1 HIGH QUALITY 6 5 3 1 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 COMMENT - "The GeForce FX 5200 returns to it's usual poor level of performance and can only deliver 7fps at the lowest quality setting and lowest resolution we tested. 7fps is totally unplayable and even if you reduced the resolution to 640x480 I doubt it would be playable." BENCHMARK SETTINGS LOW QUALITY Vehicle Detail Low Circuit Detail Low Special Effects Low Shadows Low Track Distance Normal MEDIUM QUALITY Vehicle Detail Medium Circuit Detail Medium Special Effects Medium Shadows Medium HIGH QUALITY Vehicle Detail Full Circuit Detail Full Special Effects Medium Shadows Full

KING KONG 13 9 5 3 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 COMMENT - "Peter Jackson's King Kong is totally unplayable with the GeForce FX 5200."

LEGO STAR WARS 49 33 20 MEDIUM QUALITY HIGH QUALITY ULTRA HIGH QUALITY COMMENT - "We have managed to find another game the GeForce FX 5200 can run at a playable level and using medium quality settings it even looks pretty good."

QUAKE 3 ARENA HIGH QUALITY 175 112 67 44 HIGH QUALITY (4xAA & 8xAF) 48 29 17 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 BENCHMARK SETTINGS Four.dm68 Benchmark 32Bit Colour Depth Texture Compress Disabled Lightmap Lighting High Geometric Detail Full Texture Detail Trilinear Texture Filtering COMMENT - "Quake 3 Arena is a very popular game used for multiplayer gaming and I was pleased to see the GeForce FX 5200 deliver playable performance at all of the resolutions tested. The GeForce FX 5200 was even able to deliver playable performance at 800x600 using 8xAF and 4xAA."

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