Once again, RADEON 9200 is better than GeForce4 MX440 in the light mode, but worse – in the hard one. RADEON 8500 and 9000 PRO alternately reach the top.

GeForce4 MX440 cannot pass the Nature test, as it doesn’t support pixel shaders. RADEON 9200 was overall slower than other ATI cards for understandable reasons, while RADEON 9000 PRO was the best with enabled FSAA and anisotropic filtering. By the way, RADEON 9200 tried to compete on more or less equal terms with RADEON 8500 in this test in high resolutions, which was possible due to some improvements made by ATI in RV250/280 chips.

Overall, Gigabyte Maya II R9200 proved up to our expectations: it performed comparably to GeForce4 MX440. Its memory is too slow to let it reach RADEON 8500/9000 PRO, so that even its higher size (128MB) wouldn’t help, as you see. The resume: a value card doesn’t need a lot of slow memory. It could be better if the card featured 64MB of faster memory.