Geforce 4 Ti 4600 vs Geforce 6200

[nheather]

My daughters PC has the following graphics card

Geforce 6200 (256MB DDR2)

which was bought as a cheap card a while ago as she only played Barbie games and Dogz on her PC.

I now have, as a result of upgrades, a spare

Geforce 4 ti 4600 (128MB)

which was an expensive card in its day

Question is - is the Geforce 4 ti 4600 better than the Geforce 6200?

Is it clear cut which is best or should I run a 3DMark on each?

If so, which 3DMark would be best to use?

Thanks for the help,

Cheers,

Nigel

 

[Tute]

Pretty sure that Ti4600 would wee all over the 6200.

It would look worse, as it'd be 2 generations older, but those 6200s were really quite slow.

[Edit] I'm guessing the GF4 would only go up to 3dmark03, and the 6200 up to 3dmark05, so try '03.

 

[sprognak]

The 6xxx series were a massive improvement on the 5xxx series for DirectX 9. Having said that, the 5xxx were slower than the 4xxx Ti series in many cases - this placed the high end 4xxx cards and low end 6xxx cards fairly close performance.

For anything up to DirectX 8, the 4600 should do very well. In DX9 territory, expect the 6200 to pull ahead.

If you bench them, post your results!

 

[man_from_uncle]

sprognak, is probably right. I'd fancy the ti4600 over the 6200 in anything of DX8 or lower and even when the 6200 has the advantage I doubt it would be playable on either.

I'd be interested to know the results as well if you do test them. 3dmark01 and 03 are your best bet and i'd probably lean towards 01 just because you'll know what they are like in more playable environments.

 

[sprognak]

While 3D Mark 01 was well used in the 4600 days, I seem to recall that NVidia and ATI were playing dirty back then and writing a lot of driver and chip optimisations specifically for it.

Still should be a good indicator.

 

[nheather]

I'll run a few versions of 3DMark against the two and post the results back here.

Probably, won't be able to try it until the weekend though.

Cheers,

Nigel

 

[nheather]

I've run some tests as follows

3DMark 2001
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Geforce 4 ti 4600 - all tests supported - 11432
Geforce 6200 - all tests supported - 9483

3DMark 03
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Geforce 4 ti 4600 - one game test and one feature test not supported - 1941
Geforce 6200 - all tests supported - 2950


I'm going to try a more recent 3DMark test but at the moment I'm inclined to stick with the Geforce 6200.

Cheers,

Nigel

 

[Duke]

The 6200 would have much more OCing ability as well, the 4600 won't go much more than stock.