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Originally posted by Yaguex
I sure hope you dont mean that the FX 5200 outperforms the GForce 4 Ti seriers (4200 for example), because you'd be DEAD wrong.
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When looking at the actual products themselves, you can make a couple of generalizations about their performance. For starters, the GeForce FX 5600/5200 Ultra performs much like a GeForce4 Ti 4200 in situations where no anti-aliasing or anisotropic filtering is used. Enabling either or both of those features allow the 5600/5200 Ultra to significantly outperform the GeForce4 Ti 4200, mostly thanks to the NV31's superior memory controller, compression and AA engines.
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HAHA! of course they're gonna say that, they're commercializing their own product man.
But, if you actually go and read one of those forums where tech and gaming freaks compare their systems, overclock them, benchmark their FPS in different games, etc, you will see that the 5200 is commonly frown upon as utter crap, and the 5600 STILL performs worse than the older generation of GForce4 Ti cards.
It's something deceiving, but that's actually what they intended. Same case with ATI: Their ATI 9600 performs worse than the former ATI 9500, and their ATI 9000 performs worse than the ATI 8500.
When they release a new product (many times in order to reduce manufacturing costs), they name their new cards with a higher "nickname" than the former one so potential customers dont see it as a stepdown performance wise, even tho it actually is indeed.
Just search on the net, and avoid the 5200/5600 series. In the other hand, the 5700 ultra is a damn fine card.
Yag.