GeForce FX 5200 Ultra Performance Analysis
Detailed Benchmarks With NVIDIA's Value Gaming Card

By - Marco Chiappetta and Dave Altavilla
March 12, 2003

 

Serious Sam 2 should be significantly less taxing on these graphics cards, versus Comanche 4 or Unreal Tournament 2003.  As a result, we ran our benchmarks with an "Extreme Quality" script and with resolutions up to 1600x1200.  A pattern is beginning to develop here for sure.

Head-to-Head / Performance With Serious Sam: TSE
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Here again, we see the GeForce FX 5200 Ultra keeping pace with the Radeon 9000 Pro, without AA or Aniso Filtering enabled.  However, turn on the eye candy and NVIDIA's latest mainstream GeForce FX offering, blows past the ATi Radeon 9000 Pro.  Again, the AA engine in the GeForce FX is clearly superior to the older generation ATi solution, plain and simple.  However, its raw fill rate performance is about on par with the ATi card.

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