3D Mark 2003, No AA, No AF
3D Mark 2003, 4xAA, 8xAF
3D Mark 2003, 4XS, 8xAF
Without stating the obvious, the sweetspot for the FX5200 appears to be at lower resolution. With AA turned off, there is a drop in performance as we increase resolution, but once AA and AF is enabled, the performance is seriously hindered.
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Like what we've seen with 3D Mark, performance is slashed in half once you turn on AntiAliasing and Anisotropic Filtering. With the synthetic benchmarks out of the way, let's look at some real-world benchmarks from a couple games available now.
Unreal Tournament 2003, No AA, No AF
Unreal Tournament 2003, 4xAA, 8xAF
Unreal Tournament 2003 is proving to be a real burden for the MSI FX5200-TDR128. It does alright at 1024x768, but struggles at the higher resolutions. This is also noticable during gameplay, as my system, at 1280x768, stuttered when somebody began shooting in my direction. With 4xAA and 8xAF, things got much worse as it was near unplayable with these settings enabled. Let's see how it does with Quincunx and 4XS AA...
Unreal Tournament 2003, 4XS, 8xAF
Unreal Tournament 2003, Quincunx AA, 8xAF
AntiAliasing performance here is close to 4xAA. 4XS certainly looks a little better, though performance drops accordingly. I've always complained about Quincunx being somewhat blurry, though it doesn't take as much of a performance hit as 4xAA.
