The nVidia "SE" cards

[Slaimus]

Anyone have information on what the heck are the FX 5200SE, 5600SE, and 5900SE? Google search results only in non-English results.

 

[Schadenfroh]

it means they suck

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
it means they suck

Yep, that's about it. Video-card wise, SE stands for Sucky Edition these days.

Thought nVidia had started using the "XT" tag for that though?

- M4H

 

[Slaimus]

I thought that only applies to Radeons?

 

[xSauronx]

no
it applies to all cards, se is "special edition"
where special = suckass

cheaper memory, lower clock speeds, fewer rendering pipelines....that sort of thing. lower quality, lower price: you get what you pay for

 

[Slaimus]

Found some info on the nVidia SE cards. Apparently they are full fledged chips with slower memory compared with the non-SE, same speed core and no crippling of pipes/memory bitwidth. This is unlike ATI's SE cards where the core and memory all run at normal speed but the core and/or memory have been halved.

 

[nemesismk2]

The FX5900 SE performs almost at FX5900 performance according to this review:-

evga_e-geforce_fx_5900_xt_review at firing squad

BTW:Avoid all of the other SE video cards because their performance sucks!

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
it means they suck

"slow edition"?

 

[PhlashFoto]

Originally posted by: CraigRT

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh it means they suck

"slow edition"?

More like Slow Suckers Edition.... oh wait that's SSE

 

[TheAudit]

Well, a 9600 SE is great if you are comparing it to a TNT2.
But if you want to know which is better within a family of cards then, no, they pretty much stink. It depends on what you are upgrading from and what you can afford. Not everyone can spend the money, or wants to, on a 9800 Pro or a 5900 Ultra.

 

[DannyBoy]

SE = Shit edition...

 

[sandorski]

I think the consensus is that ATI's SE Sucks much more than NVidia's. In fact, the NVidia SE barely sucks at all, especially if they will overclock. That's just from reading others opinions though.

 

[BenSkywalker]

The 5900SE is quite a bit better then the 5800Ultra, costs about the same as the 5700Ultra and performs close to the 5900 vanilla. Haven't seen anything on the 52SE or 56SE, but B3D had a review on the 5900SE(in English) and it for under $200(you can get the eVGA version off of NewEgg for ~$190 with Call of Duty) they are actually a very good deal.

For the most part, they only get in to 'trouble' when using AA(where they are ~10% slower then the 5900 regular, not huge margins but noticeable), other then that they perform pretty much exactly the same.

 

[modedepe]

Originally posted by: sandorski
I think the consensus is that ATI's SE Sucks much more than NVidia's. In fact, the NVidia SE barely sucks at all, especially if they will overclock. That's just from reading others opinions though.

Yep I'd agree with that. Nvidia's xt series basically takes the place of ati's se series.

 

[tinyabs]

Originally posted by: modedepe

Originally posted by: sandorski
I think the consensus is that ATI's SE Sucks much more than NVidia's. In fact, the NVidia SE barely sucks at all, especially if they will overclock. That's just from reading others opinions though.

Yep I'd agree with that. Nvidia's xt series basically takes the place of ati's se series.

I saw somewhere 'SE' is invented by car makers.