Thread: nvidia 6200 ???
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Old 06-08-2005, 05:55 PM   #27 (permalink)
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i thought 6200 is better than 5900 b'cos its 6x series card from nvidia n it also support pixel share 3.0.......does 5900 support it
The 6200 may support sm3.0 .. but a FX5900 or above is far better at performance .... a simple compaison of memory bandwidth should explain this :

6200

mem. interface : 64 bit/128 bit .. lets consider a 128bit model....
memory clock : 500 MHz ...

memory bandwidth : around 8 GBps ...

FX5900

mem. interface : 128 bit/256 bit .. lets consider the 256 bit model
memory clock : 800 MHz

memory bandwidth : around 25 GBps ....


So even if the sm3.0 in the 6200 can suffice some gain in performance when handling sm2.0 .. the raw mem. bandwidth o te FX5900 or above easiy ouperforms ...

the 6200 is more like a FX5200 of the 6 series ...

moreover the 256bit mem. bandwidth of th FX59xx seres helps it to handle aa,af more easily ...

And imagine a FX5950XT card clocked at 950MHz !!! the 6200 will easily lose ...
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