NVIDIA’s GeForce 6100 Leaves Behind ATI’s RADEON XPRESS 200 – Web-Site

by Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 09/23/2005 | 02:25 AM ]

Earlier this week NVIDIA Corp. has released a lineup of dual-chip core-logic sets which addresses entry-level markets and bring a new level of functionality and performance for value computers. The new platforms consist of the GeForce 6100 and 6150 graphics processing units (GPUs) as well as nForce 410 and 430 media and communication processors (MCPs). The main question was whether the new products from NVIDIA can outperform ATI’s year-old RADEON XPRESS 200.

AnandTech has unwrapped performance level of the GeForce 6100, a chip aimed at the low-end market, along with that of Biostar TForce 6100-939 mainboard. The platform was compared to so-far the most robust integrated graphics product on the market, ATI’s RADEON XPRESS 200.

“Our first benchmarking tests indicate that buyers have some reason to be excited about NVIDIA’s new 6100 Integrated Graphics chipset family. Despite the fact that serious gamers would find any integrated graphics board far too limiting, the great majority of boards that are used in systems are integrated graphics boards. In our head-to-head competition with the ATI RS480, the current integrated performance king, the bottom-of-the-line 6100 outperformed the ATI in almost every benchmark,” AnandTech has written in the article.

The GeForce 6100 GPU features two pixel processors, one vertex processor and is fully compliant with Shader Model 3.0 specifications. This integrated graphics solution is clocked at 425MHz and uses system memory as a frame-buffer. The processor is made using a 90nm process technology. NVIDIA will also supply more advanced GeForce 6150 chip.

• AnandTech: First Look at NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Performance.