Geforce Ti4200 capabilities

How does the FX5500 compare with the Ti4200 64mb??
I have a Ti4200 on my PC and its done me very well over the last 4 yrs! Excellent card and maybe a little ahead of its time..
But one thing i noticed is that even though it will run the likes of Far Cry very very smothly..it jst doesnt support the eye candy!...
Now what i mean by that is if i turned up to high detail settings the game will run very well but the card just doesnt 'SHOW' the graphical eye candy! It jst doesnt support it!
When i played Far Cry on my x200M, it didnt play the game as smootly but MY GOD it showed me details iv never seen before!
This applies to all games post 2003-2005...
In fact (and i expect some of u not to believe this) but the x200M on Med settings looks ALOT better than the Ti4200 at Max settings..
So im guessing that its simply that its coz the card is an older generation card but its amazing that it will have the horsepower to play the games pretty much perfectly but jst not show the level detail..

 

This is why i believe that the benchmarks dont tell the whole story as i beleive that u could say the x200M is inferior to the likes of the older generation Ti4200's,4600s. But the games on med settings will look alot better on the likes of the x200M/ 6200 than on the older 'more powerful cards'..

 

The games will run better on the 4200 as it has more horsepower but its a directx 8 card while the x200m is dx9 meaning it has much better shading capabilities.