Which Video Card is better....

[jimbob200521]

I've got a friend who had a Radeon 9000 64mb and I have a FX5200 128mb Card. If my FX5200 is better than his Radeon 9000 I'm going to give it to him since he games with it more than I do. Thanks for any help

 

[Matthias99]

If the FX5200 is 128-bit, it's probably a little better than a RADEON 9000. If it's 64-bit... then you are the proud owner of probably the slowest graphics card made in the last four years.

They're both pretty awful by today's standards. Even with the 128-bit versions of both cards, you're looking at something maybe around the performance level of a GF3Ti. Maybe.

digit-life 1999-2003 roundup. Has both cards, in both 128-bit and 64-bit flavors (the RADEON 9000 is almost identical to the RADEON 9200).

 

[Dethfrumbelo]

That would be like trading a Yugo for a Pinto I guess.

 

[v8envy]

The FX5200 is 'better' from a feature set standpoint. You can get pixel shaders with Cedega under Linux with a FX5200, and it is better from an accelerated media playback with both Linux and Window. There are open source X drivers for the 9000, however. If you don't care about Linux, benchmark both with 3dMark 2001 and see. =)

2D image quality is probably better on the 9000. 3D image quality was great on the FX series.

But yeah, you probably won't notice a performance difference between the two. We're talking barely double digit frame rates with 2003 games with those cards. 10 fps and 12 fps are a bigger difference percentage wise than you'd see comparing a 7800GT vs X1900XTX, but not really perceptable when you're comparing slideshows.

 

[jimbob200521]

Originally posted by: Matthias99
If the FX5200 is 128-bit, it's probably a little better than a RADEON 9000. If it's 64-bit... then you are the proud owner of probably the slowest graphics card made in the last four years.

They're both pretty awful by today's standards. Even with the 128-bit versions of both cards, you're looking at something maybe around the performance level of a GF3Ti. Maybe.

digit-life 1999-2003 roundup. Has both cards, in both 128-bit and 64-bit flavors (the RADEON 9000 is almost identical to the RADEON 9200).

Thanks for that link :thumbsup:

It looks like his 9000 is pretty close to my FX5200...

 

[Wreckage]

Most likely the only real benefit will be the extra 64mb of memory.