17 entry and mid level graphic cards (page 8: Benchs anti aliasing 4x)

UT 2004

With most cards, the game is tight between ATI and NVIDIA, but as the 6200 don’t have data compression technology to avoid very high memory bandwidth needs once the AA is activated, performances collapses with these graphic cards. The RV370 has a great advantage thanks to Z-Buffer compression. The X300/X550 easily dominate the 6200. The 6200 uses an NV43 core, which integrates data compression, but only to make the 6200 range uniform this support is deactivated. This creates quite an important gap compared to the 6600 LE which possess the same core but with compression activated.

Intel cores don’t support FSAA.

Colin McRae 2005

The situation is identical to Colin McRae with the gap being even bigger.

Sims 2

Identical situation except the 6600 GT provides quite good results. A bug seriously affected performances of the TurboCache 32 and 64 MB cards and led to incoherent scores.

In the end, it seems that GeForce 6200s, TurboCache or not, aren’t made for antialiasing. ATI’s X300 provided much better results. Of course, now we still have to find out if it is really possible to use the antialiasing, and if it is of interest with this type of graphic card. Generally, we will put the resolution first rather than activating the antialiasing with entry level graphic cards.