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Low-cost PCI-E graphics, nVidia GeForce 6200 |
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Written by Mavke
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Tuesday, 12 October 2004 |
Hardware Analysis published as an article on the Low-cost PCI-E graphics, nVidia GeForce 6200 GPU. Although PCs equipped with PCI-E aren't yet available as anything but a top-of-the-line PC, both ATI and nVidia continue to debut new graphics cards equipped with this interface.
 Low-cost PCI-E graphics, nVidia GeForce 6200
A few weeks ago we saw the launch of the GeForce 6600 and 6600GT as well as the Radeon X700 Pro and X700 XT. All of these cards aim to be in the proverbial sweet spot for graphics cards as they all carry a price tag around $199. If that’s even a little over the top for your budget, nVidia today launches the GeForce 6200, which offers the bulk of the GeForce 6-series features at a bargain price of $129. With the 6200 being a full member of the GeForce 6-series it is a genuine next generation part. ATI for example uses an older architecture on their X600 series which, at least in terms of features, can't really keep up with today’s demand in games and applications.
What's missing on the GeForce 6200 is another 4-pipelines over the 6600, thus effectively making the 6200 a 4-pipeline architecture. The GeForce 6200 also has to make due without the SLI connector which enables the 6600 and 6800 series cards to virtually double their performance when two cards are used in a dual-slot x16 PCI-E motherboard. Apart from these differences the GeForce 6200 uses the same 128-bit memory interface as the 6600 series, and has built in support for SM3.0 and DirextX 9.0c. nVidia didn't cut any corners in the video acceleration department either, offering the full set of features, including WMV9 acceleration as we've seen from the 6600 and 6800 series.
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ASUS 8800GT PCIe 512MB - Rev 04
