NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

NVIDIA uses the “XT” suffix for denoting weakened card models, maybe in spite of ATI’s usage. The GeForce FX 5600 XT is the same GeForce FX 5600, but with a lower GPU frequency and a twice-reduced 64-bit memory bus.

This graphics processor came to us on a card from Palit:

You can see it in the snapshot that they cut down the memory bus installing only half of the memory chips. There are 128MB of graphics memory onboard (Elixir N2DS25616BT-5T; 5ns cycle time). The nominal frequencies of the GPU and memory are 235/400 (200DDR) MHz. The GPU was better at overclocking than the memory: I reached the frequency ceiling at 350/420MHz.

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

The GeForce FX 5200 is a DirectX 9-compatible processor originally intended for low-end graphics cards. We have an ASUS product on this chip:

The product doesn’t look “cheap” – it comes from ASUS! But anyway you may be sure that this one won’t be a record-setter in our performance tests.

We have 128MB of graphics memory from Samsung here (Samsung K4D261638E-TC50; 5ns cycle time). It normally works at 250/400 (200DDR) MHz and notched 300/525MHz at overclocking. Not bad.