GEFORCE 5200 PERFORMANCE

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	35
	24
	17

	10
	8
	7
	6

	7
	6
	5
	4

COMMENT - "1944 Battle of the Bulge was playable with the GeForce 5200 but only at 800x600 using low quality settings. When medium or high quality settings were used the GeForce 5200 suffered a huge performance loss of between 65% to 81%."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

St. Vith Scenario

LOW QUALITY

Texture Detail Low
Particle Density Low
Shadow Resolution Low
Water Disabled
Decals Disabled
Fog Enabled
Wire Physics Disabled
Grass Disabled

MEDIUM QUALITY

Texture Detail Medium
Particle Density Medium
Shadow Resolution Medium
Water Disabled
Decals Enabled
Fog Enabled
Wire Physics Disabled
Grass Enabled

HIGH QUALITY

Texture Detail High
Particle Density High
Shadow Resolution High
Water Enabled
Decals Enabled
Fog Enabled
Wire Physics Enabled
Grass Enabled

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	25
	18
	12

	11
	8
	5
	4

	8
	6
	5
	3

COMMENT - "Xpand Rally is like World Racing 2 and needs good frame rates to make the game playable which the GeForce 5200 can only marginally deliver at 800x600 using low quality settings."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

Fullscreen Enabled
Anti-Aliasing Disabled
Grand Canyon Level

LOW QUALITY

Bilinear
Material Quality Very Low
View Distance 20%
Water Quality Low
Car Deformations Disabled
Car Details Low
Car Envmap Quality Low
Car Shadows Low

MEDIUM QUALITY

Trilinear
Material Quality Medium
View Distance 80%
Water Quality Medium
Car Deformations Enabled
Car Details High
Car Envmap Quality Medium
Car Shadows High

HIGH QUALITY

Anisotropic
Material Quality Very High
View Distance 100%
Water Quality High
Car Deformations Enabled
Car Details High
Car Envmap Quality High
Car Shadows Very High

CONCLUSION - "The poor GeForce 5200 performance was to be expected when you consider that it uses the GeForce GPU which is well known for offering poor DX9 performance and when you cripple it even further with 64bit SDR memory running at a low 333mhz. The only gaming highlights for the GeForce 5200 was it's playable performance in Far Cry, Lego Star Wars, Quake 3 Arena, Scooter War3z, Serious Sam 2, Trackmania Sunrise, Unreal Tournament and Unreal Tournament 2004. What this means is that out of a total of 23 games the GeForce 5200 was playable in only 8 of them!"

Using other benchmark results we found that the GeForce 5200 was 62% slower than the GeForce4 Ti4200, 50% slower than the GeForce 6200 TC but 23% faster than the GeForce MX 4000."