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Review: GAINWARD FX 5200 POWERPACK PRO/660 TV/DVI PCI

by Tarinder Sandhu on 1 October 2003, 00:00

Tags: Gainward FX 5200 Powerpack PRO/660 Tv/dvi PCI, Gainward

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Benchmarks II

Quake III

A low fillrate, low multi-texturing performance, few bandwidth-saving techniques and the disadvantages involved in not using a dedicated, multi-request memory accessing system (AGP) all conspire to give the slowest Quake III score that we've seen in some time.

Not all that playable, really.

Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo 2206.

A reasonable showing in the excellent UT2003 Demo's Flyby, but still some way off the midrange cards a notch or two up in the range.

Increase the complexity by adding 4x AA and 8x AF takes away two-thirds of the card's performance from 1024x768x32 4/8. The FX 5200 PCI reacts badly to load, as expected.