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NVIDIA GeForce 8200 mGPU Preview

By Zachary Chan - 20 Feb 2008

Results - Futuremark PCMark05

Results - Futuremark PCMark05

Overall System performance of the GeForce 8200 in PCMark05 looked like it was trailing the AMD 690G and GeForce 6100-405 as well. However, the real culprit seemed to be its memory subsystem performance, which was almost 37% below the GeForce 6100 level. Traditionally, NVIDIA has managed to maintain a strong performance against AMD chipsets, but we're really concerned with what we're seeing here. While it may seem as if the board is running in single-channel mode, it isn't because we got even lower results when running in single-channel mode. In any case, our previous experience with single and dual-channel memory performance tells us the difference in benchmarks is small and not to the degree we're seeing here.

CPU scores are decent as well as storage, but you will notice that everything is pulled down by the much lower memory performance. A point to take note off though, NVIDIA SATA controllers have already supported features like NCQ even before AHCI implementation, so you don't really see any difference between the non-AHCI GeForce 6100 and the new GeForce 8200. It's only the Intel chipsets that implement NCQ through the support of AHCI.

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