Which one is better ATI Radeon Xpress 1100, ATI Radeon 9200, or nVidia GeForce FX 5200?

Topic, I need to know.

 

i know that ati radeon 9200 is beter than ati xpress 1100 however it doesn' support direct x9 wihich isn't good. the ati radeon xpress 1100 is equivalent to ati 200m which is mine, but little better performance i think. sinve 1100 is almost equivalent to 200m, itll run some the new games but lowest of low also it might require overclocking. (correct me plz^^)

 

I made a thread like this before I think with the two ati cards and people say the 1100 is better. My desktop has the 9200 while my laptop has the 1100. Two of my friends has the 5200, and from the games one of them plays I'm thinking that the 5200 is a good card. Anyone know which one is better. I think the 1100, because it's newer, but it's integrated so I don't know.

 

the 9200 does support DX9, but its outdated.

 

Id take the Xpress 1100, because I have a 9200 desktop card and the performance aint great, on par with the X1100. Plus, the X1100 has better driver support and less power consumption.

 

For the love of god avoid the FX5200. I'm willing to say anything on that list is better than the FX5200. And in case anyone here actually likes the FX5200, I own a FX5500 on my desktop and it physically pains me anytime I try to play anything on there. The card is simply terrible for any sort of gaming, period.

Now that I have my FX5200/5500 anti-pathy out of the way, the 9200 won't perform much better than the FX5200 (keyword: much). The Xpress 1100 to me seems the better choice. It's basically a crippled X1300 core if I'm not mistaken.

P.S: If you want a detailed technical explanation of why the FX5200 blows big chunks, look up GeForce FX on Wikipedia. God the shader mess...

 

Like said by Zoo avoid the FX 5200: they run hot, are not fast and do not even support DX 9. The 9200 is a good card but very outdated.

So I think a system with Xpress 1100M will be the fastest.

 

The Fx5200 does support Dx9, just it's useless at it. It truly is a crap performer, I didn't realise how bad until I picked up one for 20 euro for my second desktop...had to replace it immediately with a 6200, it was absolutely horrible, even for some undemanding and old games.

The 9200 is an ok card but doesn't support dx9, overall the X1100 is the best on that list by a long shot.

 

Are you sure, becauase one of my friend he plays Source with me with the 5200, and it's pretty much the same settings as I have it which are high, and he gets very playable FPS like I do. Also my other friend who has the 5200 he plays oblivion, and he says he has his settings maxed out. Which is hard to believe, and if he had bad FPS I know he wouldn't be playing it at high settings, but I have yet sen him play it so I wouldn't know.

 

Your friend with Oblivion lies, plain and simple. It takes a late model high end card to max out Oblivion at any decent fps, not a 3 generation old budget card.

 

The FX5200 is the low end dedicated nVidia Geforce FX series card, therefore its performance is gash compared with say mid end FX cards or high end Geforce 4 cards or mid range ATI 9000 series. But, it is still a dedicated FX series graphics card, whcih means its performance is still better than say, the Geforce 4 MX series and integrated cards at its time.
The 9200 is an early dedicated ATI 9000 series card, with performance similar to the FX5200.
Although the X1100 is an integrated solution, it is much newer than the 9200 or the FX5200, so it will perform the best of those three.

 

lol, biggest lie I've ever seen posted on this forum

 

haha i chuckled as well.

although i do agree you can play CS:S at 1024x768 with most everything on medium to high with an fx5500 (marginally better than fx5200 if memory serves me right).... i've done it with 1gb ram and an athlon 2600+

 

Yeah the FX5500 is basically a higher clocked Fx5200. It's fine for Source, but then again, what isn't fine for Source? Go6150 and X200 integrated can run it pretty good...

As for Oblivion, I'd be surprised if it's running acceptably even on lowest settings, the Fx5200 is a diabolical Dx9 card (probably the worst one available/ever made), it can barely manage Battlefield 2 on all low settings.

 

We want screenies that the 5200 plays Oblivion!

 

Yeah I'll ask for it, but I think he uninstalled it.

Also you guys say that the 1100 is better than the 9200, but when I played Halo on my 9200 very playable FPS ( I don't know what the FPS was though). While I was playing Halo on my 1100, it seemed it had great FPS as well, but I was playing my friend 1v1 and I don't know but it seemed like I FPS had dropped. Again I don't know what was the FPS, maybe I'm just imagining things. Also I was running Halo on my 1100 from a USB Drive, so could that have caused this?