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Inno3D Tornado GeForce FX 5200 - 128mb
Manufacturer:
InnoVision
Supplied by:
InnoVision
Street
Price: $99
by Dean
Barker (4/27/2003)
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 InnoVision. The 5200 FX represents the next generation’s 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 era’s 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.
This is the first InnoVision product we have reviewed here, so let me take a
second to expand on InnoVision. InnoVision produces a number of multimedia
products aimed at both the OEM and retail market. These products range from VGA
cards, obviously, to mainboards, audio cards, and digital video products. We
want to thank
InnoVision for supplying us the Inno3D
Tornado FX 5200 card and making
this review possible. Let’s start out with some specs.
Specifications
• Powered by NVidia GeForce FX 5200 GPU
• Available in 64/128 meg versions
• CineFX™ engine
• 128-bit studio-precision color
• 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
• 350MHz RAMDACs support 2048x1536 resolution at 75MHz
• 4 Pixels/Clock Rendering Pipeline
• Pixel Shader and Vertex Shader 2.0
• New 64-phase Video Scaler
• Highest DVI output up to 1600x1200
• 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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