Not so long ago we tested Gigabyte GV-R9200 graphics card and arrived at the conclusion that AGP 8x doesn’t provide any significant advantages for RADEON 9200 (see our article called Gigabyte Maya II R9200 Graphics Card Review: AGP 8x Conquers the Value Market). However, besides AGP 8x, many RADEON 9200 based graphics cards also feature 128MB of onboard graphics memory. Maybe so much memory onboard could help in certain games, but you will still never reach acceptable gaming performance because RADEON 9200 chip is not powerful enough.
This time, we managed to get hold of a RADEON 9200 based graphics card from First International Computer (FIC). This solution features 64MB of graphics memory, so we decided to check how large amounts of onboard graphics memory could affect the accelerator performance in most popular applications. Like all RV280 based graphics solutions, FIC A92 boasts full support of API DirectX 8.1, OpenGL 1.4, and FullStream technology.
Read the full review at XBitLabs.com
Jul 1, 2003, 02:44 AM
