NVIDIA GeForce 6200 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 6200 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 6200

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6200

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 130 nm
2.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 37 vs 13

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	11 October 2004 vs 6 March 2003
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	37 vs 13

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600

Around 8% higher core clock speed: 325 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 8% higher texture fill rate: 1.3 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s
5.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 168 vs 31

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	325 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.3 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	168 vs 31

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 6200
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

168

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 6200	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600
PassMark - G3D Mark	37	13
PassMark - G2D Mark	31	168

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 6200	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rankine
Code name	NV43 A2	NV31 A1
Launch date	11 October 2004	6 March 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$39.99
Place in performance rating	1678	1053
Price now	$39.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	1.46
Technical info
Core clock speed	300 MHz	325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	1.2 GTexel / s	1.3 GTexel / s
Transistor count	146 million	80 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		37 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	191 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0a
OpenGL	2.1	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	8.8 GB / s	8.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	550 MHz	550 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR