GeForce Ti4200 vs FX5200

danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
edited March 2004 in Hardware
How much of a performance increase would I see with a GeForce FX5200 128MB DDR AGP8x vs a GeForce Ti4200 64MB DDR AGP 4x that I currently have?

Comments

  • MrBillMrBill Missouri Member
    edited August 2003
    According to the answers I got concerning the FX5200.....Keep the ti4200.

    http://www.icronticforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=372
  • d-rkerd-rker UK
    edited August 2003
    i agree .from what i've seen ,the only advantage this card has is DX9 compliance . keep the 4200 but if you must ,consider ATI 9500/9500pro/9600pro for a good performing budget card .
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited September 2003
    According to that thread. If I do buy a GeForceFX, I should get the FX5600 or FX5900. I saw a PNY GeForceFX 5200 at best buy for $99, the FX5600 was something like $149 and the FX5900 was $249.00. All of them had 128MB DDR and were of course AGP 8x
  • DoM-aLDoM-aL Indiana
    edited September 2003
    Buy a 9500 pro, 9600pro, or 9700 pro
  • d-rkerd-rker UK
    edited September 2003
    or a 9700 non pro ;)
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited September 2003
    Maybe I will, but they are a lot more expensive than a nVidia card.
  • LIQuidLIQuid Raleigh, NC
    edited September 2003
    also a lot faster :D
  • AgeekAgeek
    edited September 2003
    For Windows, the 5200 is broken about the level of a 9500 non-pro or 9600 non-pro. If you game with hyper recent games you might benefit from DX 9.0 but the ohter more expensive cards will bne tons better for modern games and get you the same DX 9.0 features.

    What they did with the 5200 was two or three fold. I have seen them with broken output pipes (not all, about 1\2 of what the faster cards have), slower RAM (like 1\2 as fast) and they are barely DX 9.0 compliant in reality due to slow RAM versus more expensive cards, and what you get with the faster more expensive cards is faster RAM on card and chips that are not broken piped. That is from tech standpoint. Graphics RAM is hyper expensive in the latest cards, coudl step exactly with price and they will probbaly be clearing about same per card for all but the very top end simply by using slower RAM they have now for older cards and slower cards.
  • SlackerSlacker CA, USA
    edited September 2003
    well.. as the recent HL2 benches indicate, the FX line can only be used in DX8.1 mode (forget about DX9 shaders). Your best bet right now is to buy either a Radeon 9500, 9600, 9700 or 9800.
  • airoh69airoh69
    edited March 2004
    Well i tried gainward fx5200 128mb and gave me 7500 marks on aquamark 3. i now have the pointofview ti4200 128mb 8x agp and i get 19,790 marks. 12,000 more. if you want a cheap card go and buy the radeon 9500 pro. it is cheap and fast
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