The M9200 is just M9000 with AGP8x. BTW, you should not compare 64MB GF4 4200 Go with 32MB M9 because the 32MB M9 is 64bit version while another is 128bit. If you compare 64MB M9 (such as those in the IBM T40p, Dell 600m, etc.), then the differences will be smaller. The GF4 4200 Go will be faster than 64MB M9 about 15-25% depending on applications. The problem with desktop scaling in WinXP is a well known problem with every ATI chip. For some reason, ATI gfx always display the scaling (for the free desktop manager in WindowsXP) slow and a little bit pixelated. But this problem doesn't exist in other applications AFAIK (most likely crappy implementation of desktop scaling by M$). Below is the average 3dm2k1SE for each gfx
ATI M9 32MB: ~4700-5000
ATI M9 64MB: ~7400-8000
nVidia GF4 440 Go: ~4700-5000
nVidia GF4 4200 Go 64MB: ~8500-9500
The scores assume good cpu power such as P-M 1.6GHz, P4m 2.5GHz, or P4 3GHz from IBM, Dell, and Alienware systems.
Mocca