FIRST LOOK: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Performance
by Wesley Fink on September 22, 2005 1:29 PM EST- Posted in
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General Performance & 3D Graphics
No one would ever try to pretend that 1309 is a great 3DMark03 score or that a 624 3Dmark05 score is great performance. However, the NVIDIA and ATI integrated graphics did finish both benchmarks - something that many value solutions fail to do - and the NVIDIA 6100 was clearly the better performer.
The NVIDIA 6100 is the little brother of the 6100 family, with the 6150 at the top. Despite that the 6100 wins PCMark2005 and both FutureMark 3D graphics benchmarks. It's reasonable to expect that the 6150 will be even faster. While the NVIDIA lead is not huge in integrated graphics, it is still clear that any of the NVIDIA 6100 family will give you the best overall performance among AMD integrated graphics solutions.
No one would ever try to pretend that 1309 is a great 3DMark03 score or that a 624 3Dmark05 score is great performance. However, the NVIDIA and ATI integrated graphics did finish both benchmarks - something that many value solutions fail to do - and the NVIDIA 6100 was clearly the better performer.
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erwos - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link
I'd also like to see some comparison of the 6150 to the 64-bit, 128mb DDR Sideport (dedicated RAM) variant of the Xpress 200. From what I've seen here, it would appear to be faster than the 6100 (about 100 3dMarks faster), but I've got no idea about the 6150. Judging from clockspeed alone, my guess is that they'd be running neck and neck.-Erwos
Calin - Monday, September 26, 2005 - link
I'd like too - but let's just make tests only with the boards that will (hopefully) be easy to find and at a lower price point. I don't think XPress200 plus DDR Sideport would be cheaper than a normal board and cheap video card, and I'm sure their availability won't be too great either.Anyway, those 6150 - I want one :p
MercenaryForHire - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - link
I'm impressed on that point alone.The performance is pretty impressive for a chip with no local framebuffer as well - I'd like to see a review of a Hardcore Budget Build with this and a 939 Sempron when they become available. :)
- M4H