let's take a trip down the memory lane... :)

[andylawcc]

yes yes, I know this is contradicting, but pls indulge me...

which one would perform better in 3D games?

 

[JPB]

Not sure about those, But I used to have a Radeon 7000 PCI card. I think it has the 9250 and the 5200 beat. lol


Radeon 7000 vs Radeon 9250 specs

 

[asdftt123]

Memory lane is the present for me as my current system is running off of a Pentium M 1.6, 768MB DDR 333, and Geforce FX 5200. Before I had issues with the fan and overheating on my laptop I could run CS:S and HL2 comfortably @ 800x600 on DX8 with low settings (~25-50 FPS), but it won't handle older games such as Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Morrowind, etc... (I didn't bother testing many others). Sometimes the gameplay in ancient games like Homeworld is not even smooth (below 30-40fps at times).. I'll only have to put up with this for a few weeks as I'll soon be upgrading to Quad-core and 8800GTX. =)

 

[asdftt123]

I believe my FX5200 is also the 32mb version running on AGP 4x. -_- Before 2004 I was using a Pentium II 233, 96mb SDRAM, and Nvidia Riva 128 (I think) that was purchased for $2000 in '94 or '95. I remember trying to run the original UT @ 320x200 (whatever the lowest resolution was offered) and it wouldn't play with a constant frame rate or even hardware accelerated 3d effects. It was a pretty dismal age for gaming. =( Let's leave it at that.

 

[myocardia]

Here's a good comparison between the two. Note though, that only the 9250 is available in 256 MB versions, IIRC, so that would add a bit of performance in higher resolutions (like 1280x1024 😀).

 

[shadowofthesun]

Originally posted by: JPB
Not sure about those, But I used to have a Radeon 7000 PCI card. I think it has the 9250 and the 5200 beat. lol


Radeon 7000 vs Radeon 9250 specs

Good news JPB! All you need to do is overclock that Radeon 7000 to 961/406 and it will have that 9250 beat!

My finger hurts from hitting the plus icon under overclock so many times.

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: myocardia
Here's a good comparison between the two. Note though, that only the 9250 is available in 256 MB versions, IIRC, so that would add a bit of performance in higher resolutions (like 1280x1024 😀).

nice find! thanks !

 

[tcsenter]

I created this a long, long time ago...

R9250 v. FX5200

Remember that being a DX9.0 compliant GPU actually HURTS the FX5200 because its DX9 performance was so bad. Might as well not even use the DX9.0 rendering paths at all.

 

[asdftt123]

Are those benchmarks accurate? I swear I can't even play RTCW on my system at playable frames no matter what the settings are.