GeForce
FX 5200 - 128mb - 8x -TV out
The GeForce FX 5200 GPUs deliver best-in class performance and features at a
great price. Experience cinematic-quality effects and studio-quality color,
and the industry-leading performance and rock-solid driver stability you expect
from NVIDIA. The only DirectX 9 compatible GPUs in their class, the 5200 models
are engineered for compatibility with the latest gaming and multimedia software.
Introduction
The GeForce
FX series has been highly anticipated by the gaming community to see if NVidia
can take up the gauntlet ATi threw down with their latest Radeon Pro cards.
Even the name GeForce FX sparks interest, as this is the first collaborative
product put out by NVidia with their acquired 3Dfx assets.Hence the name, GeForce
FX. The card we have today is the 5200 FX model from XFX - Pine.The 5200 FX
represents the next generations equivalent to the MX line of previous GeForce
versions.Now before you start moaning about another MX you should remember that
this card is fully DirectX9 compliant.This is a shift from the MX lines that
always seemed significantly hamstrung with not fully supporting their respective
eras version of DirectX. Not here, NVidia seems to really want to make a go
at reclaiming some of their market share.
DirectX
8 brought programmable graphics to the table.The problem with this was that
it was too complicated and involved for programmers to work with efficiently.With
DirectX 9, these same programmable graphics have become much easier for programmers
to work with.This means that a slew of DirectX 9 titles will be out soon unlike
DirectX 8.Anyone looking to upgrade a video card to play new titles coming out,
needs to really give some thought into do they want the eye candy, features,
and games only DirectX 9 titles will give them.
Specifications
- Powered by NVidia
GeForce FX 5200 GPU
- CineFX engine
- Architected for Cg
- AGP 8X -2.1GB/s bandwidth
to system
- Core Clock: 250MHz
- Memory Clock: 400MHz
- Memory Bandwidth:
6.4GB per second
- Fill Rate: 1.0 Billion
texels per second
- Verticals per second:
63 million
- Operations per second:
1.03 trillion
- 0.15 Micron Process
Technology
- NVIDIA's nView multi-display
technology
- Digital Vibrance Control
(DVC) 3.0
- 4 Pixels/Clock Rendering
Pipeline
- 350MHz RAMDACs support
2048x1536 resolution at 75MHz
- Pixel Shader and Vertex
Shader 2.0
- New 64-phase Video
Scaler
- Integrated TV encoder
up to 1024x768 resolution
- Integrated full hardware
MPEG-2 decoder
- NVidia Unified Driver
Architecture (UDA)
- Microsoft DirectX
9.0 Optimizations and Support
- OpenGL 1.4 Optimizations
and Support
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