Forsa Geforce FX 5600

Review by Jason Jacobs on 2.17.04
Graphics Card Provided by Forsa

3D Performance:

The Forsa Geforce FX 5600 was tested in both 3Dmark 2001 and 3D mark 2003.

The 5200 was installed into the following system for benchmarking:

Abit NF7-S
AMD Barton 2500+
512 MB PC3500 Kingston HyperX
Western Digital 800JB
Western Digital 800JB
Lite-On DVDRW
Samsung 52x24x52 CDRW
Onboard NIC

While its obvoius that the Forsa FX5600 is not on the bleeding edge nor breaking any 3DMark records, this card was never intended to break records. Its performance in 3DMark 01 and 03 is respectable for a mid to low end budget card, and even quite good.

The Forsa card was also tested for video playback quality using Microsoft Media 9 Series video clips. The "Coral Reef Adventure" (1080p, 8.2 Mbps, 1:43 min, 102 MB) video clip was used as it passes the highest amount of data through the system at 8.2 Mbps. Using the statistics function of media player to show the frames skipped and actual frame rate the following was observed:

At an average rate of 22.6 frames per second its just a hair under full motion video and on screen looked very smooth. The 8X AGP and 128MB of DDR helps in that category and are again a surprise for a budget video card. The frames skipped section which reads 0 tells the story best. The Geforce 4 Ti4600 recorded the following results:

Even though this card has a higher core and memory speed, the results are much worse. The video was barely watchable and constantly skipped. AGP 8X is indeed responsible for the better playback.

Gaming

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