GeForce4 MX 440 SE vs GeForce FX 5200 Test In 9 Games (No FPS Drop - Capture Card)

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 SE 64 MB AGP vs
HIS NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 128 MB AGP

GPU-Z Specs:

All Games are in 1024x768

0:00 Intro
0:07 Counter Strike 1.6
0:59 Half Life
1:53 Soldier of Fortune
2:20 Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix
2:48 Need for Speed: Underground 2
3:29 FlatOut
4:06 Battlefield 1942
4:46 Far Cry
5:29 Mafia

PC Specs:
Motherboard: Asus P5P800-VM
CPU: Intel Pentium D 945 3.4 GHz (Dual Core)
GPU: GeForce4 MX 440 SE 64 MB AGP or GeForce FX 5200 128 MB AGP
RAM: 2GB DDR1 Kinston 400MHz (1+1)
Windows XP Professional 32 bit SP3

Drivers:
GeForce4 MX 440 SE - 6.14.10.9371 (NVIDIA 93.71) / XP
GeForce FX 5200 - 6.14.11.7519 (NVIDIA 175.19) / XP

Capture Card: HDMI Video Capture - HDMI to USB
Together with VGA+Audio to HDMI Convertor

Game Settings:

Counter Strike 1.6
Renderer: OpenGL
Display Mode: Normal
Resolution: 1024x768

Half Life
Renderer: OpenGL
Display Mode: Normal
Resolution: 1024x768
Color Quality: Highest (32 bit)

Soldier of Fortune ver. 1.07fx86F
Dynamic Video Settings
Ghoul Light Method: Hardware
Specular Lighting: On
Detail Texturing: On
Detail Texturing Range:2.5 / 15
Texture Mode: Mipped Bilinear
Anisotropic Filtering: On
Field of View: VERT 78.6

Video System Settings
Video Driver: Default OpenGL
Full Screen: Yes
Bitdepth: Auto (Same as Desktop 32 bit)
Alternate Simple Textures: Off
Texture Quality: High
Skin Texture Quality: High
Anisotropic Filtering: 2 / 15
Texture Magnification Filter: None
Texture Format: Default
Translucent Texture Format: Default

Resolution: 6: 1024 x 768 (4:3 1.333)

Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix
Light Flares: Simple
Resolution: 1024x768
Full Screen: Yes
Texture Quality: High
Texture Filter: Trilinear
Vertical Sync: Off
Quincunx Multisampling: Off
Anisotropic Filtering Level: Lowest
UI Texture Quality: High
Colors: Auto (Same as Desktop 32 bit)
FSAA: Off
Alias Shaders: Off
Advanced Texturing: On
Curve Subdivisions: Medium
Image Format: DXT5 Compressed
Alpha Image Format: DXT5 Compressed
OPENGL Extensions
Generic: Yes
ATI or NVIDIA Specific: Yes

Need for Speed Underground 2
Resolution: 1024x768
Level of Detail 25%
Car Reflection Update Rate: Lowest
Car Reflection Detail: Low
Car Shadow Neon: Highest
Car Headlight: Off
Car Geometry Detail: Low
Crowds: Off
World Detail: 33%
Road Reflection Detail: Lowest
Light Trails: Off
Light Glow: On
Particle System: Off
Motion Blur: Off
Fog: Off
Depth of Field: Off
Full Screen Anti aliasing: Lowest
Tinting: On
Horizon Fog: Off
Overbright: Off
Enhanced Contrast: Off
Rain Splatter: Off
Texture Filtering: Lowest
Vsync: Off

FlatOut
Resolution: 1024x768x32
Anisotropic Filter: Lowest
Antialiasing: None
Frequency: Default
Triple Buffering: Yes
Hardware 3D: No

Layer Overlap: Yes
Racemap: On
Figurine: On
View Distance: Highest
Track quality: Highest
Texture Quality: (75%)

Battlefield 1942
Video Performance: High
Display Mode: 1024x768 32bit
Graphics Quality: High
Effects Quality: High
Environment Mapping: Yes
Lightmaps: Yes
Shadows: Yes
Texture Quality: 80%
View Distance: 100%
Alternative Spawn Interface: No
Number of Bots: 50% (For purpose of benchmark)
CPU-Time Given to AI: 10% (For purpose of benchmark)

Far Cry
Machine Specs: Medium
Corpse Stay (Secs.) 30
Enable Gore: Yes
Resolution: 1024x768x32
Anti Aliasing: None
Vsync: Off
Texture Quality: Low
Texture Filter Quality: Bilinear
Anisotropic Filtering Level: 1
Particle Count: Low
Special Effects Quality: Low
Environment Quality: Low
Shadow Quality: Low
Water Quality: Low
Lighting Quality: Low

Mafia
Resolution: 1024x768
Anti-Aliasing: Off
Triple Buffering: No
V Sync: No
Frequency: Default
Color depth: 32 bit
Texture Quality:
Truecolor: NO (Important for GPUs with only 32 MB VRAM)
Low resolution: No
Compressed: No
Shadow quality
Truecolor: Yes
Only software mixing: Off
Turn off EAX: Yes

Hardware transformations and lighting: yes
Multi-pass rendering : No
Cut: No
W Buffer: Yes

Level of Detail: 27.5% (default)
Visibility (Draw Distance): Highest
Blood: Lowest
Game effects: High
Sounds: High
Shadows: High
Particle effects : High

[RetroGamingKingdom]

Important info:
Memory clock of MX 440 SE isn't 333 MHz SDR
it's 166 MHz SDR. GPU-Z, Aida and Everest
didn't properly detected real Graphics memory clock.
Fortunately @Super Mario informed me about this.
Some cards from GeForce2 MX and GeForce4 MX
(Abit Siluro T400 for example) have this issue
with fake DDR detection. It's probably caused by
MPLL doubling. I will post correct data about
MX 440 SE SDR and MX 400 SDR in my future benchmarks.

[jj_edzep]

I was benchmarking an MX420, FX5200 and FX5500 on WinXP (to decide for which low-profile card for a sff Win98 build) and the MX420 beat both of them (just by a very small margin, but still).
There wasn't even a thought in my mind that the MX420 was the fastest of the three. So I came to youtube to confirm.

[TheVanillatech]

Two trash cards.

I got lured into buying an FX5200 simply because it was the new FX series, supported DX9, and was relatively expensive for a low end card (£77). What a mistake. Barely had better performance than my Gainward GF2 MX 400. So I sold it to a friend who only played Ceasar 3 and Starcraft Broodwar, and he was happy enough.

Also got conned into buying an MX440-SE. The guy in the shop told me it was "better" than a Geforce 3, which only cost £10 more. Believing him, I got the 440-SE and took it home. Performance in Quake III was pretty good and the colours looked solid, but loading up Morrowind showed how slow the card was AND no pixel shaders on the water. So I took it back, and thought - fuck it - borrowed an extra £100 from my Dad and bought a Ti4800SE.

I still have that Ti4800SE! Legendary card, served me well for two years back then. Eventually replaced with a 6800XT which I unlocked with Rivatuner into a full blown 6800GT. By then, I had vowed never to make another mistake when buying a GPU.

[supermario]

That GF 4 MX 440SE has 166 mhz SD ram. There is no 333 mhz SD ram. Also the results are practically identical with the GF 4 MX420 with 333 mhz 64-bit.

[Just_a_Lad]

The only difference in FarCry is terms of graphics is the water. That's a bit disappointing, meaning that the game was pretty much DX7.

[Trako]

In Counter Strike and Half-Life the configuration with the fx 5200, uses much more cpu than that of the mx 440. Does anyone know why?