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Here the new NVIDIA GeForce FX based graphics cards perform well enough against the background of their predecessors and ATI RADEON 9000 Pro. But they still can’t really compete with ATI RADEON 9500 Pro with its 8 pixel pipelines and much faster vertex shaders unit.

With enabled FSAA and anisotropic filtering the gap between ATI RADEON 9500 Pro and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra gets somewhat smaller, but at the same time NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200/5200 Ultra slow down quite significantly, because they do not support frame buffer compression. This way GeForce4 Ti4200-8x manages to outrun them.

3DMark2001 SE Gaming Benchmarks

3DMArk 2001 gaming benchmarks were run in Low Detail mode, because in High Detail mode the results are very often limited by the CPU performance, which makes the further graphics card comparison an absolutely useless thing.

The tests were run with 32bit texture color and frame-buffer depths; Z-buffer color depth equaled 24 bit. The settings of the graphics cards were left by default.

The results shown by the new NVIDIA GeForce FX based graphics cards are all in all the same as in real games.