What is the turbo cahce for?
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maverick77_uk
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Turbo cache'd 6200 is a budget card - it only has 16, 32 or 64MB of RAM on board - it knicks the rest from system RAM as and when it needs it. Performance is poor poor poor compared with the standard 6200 with on-board RAM, coz it still has to mess with all the other resources using RAM, rather than using its own dedicated RAM for games. It has the advantage over on-board solutions in that it has some of its own RAM, so works fine for simpler games and apps. It is also a 6200 GPU, so is DX 9 compatible etc., and only nicks the system RAM when its required, unlike on-board solutions which nick and keep the system RAM, so always reducing the overall RAM available to the system. However, this is a budget solution, and shows it.
For a budget solution it is a solid card. And the RAM transfer speed is pretty fast (granted not as fast as the internal transfer on the video card). Naturally the 128MB onboard models will perform better than a 64MB + 64MB via turbocache but the TC cards are cheaper, and if you're in the market for a 6200 you're probably not a heavy gamer
maverick77_uk
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Hiya,
True, but you used the Half-life 2 result, which is a CPU, not GPU intensive game. If you look at the results from Doom3, and Far-Cry from that same review, the results are a lot more dramatic, those two games being far more GPU and texture intensive, the Doom3 results for example:
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2300&p=4
See ya.
True, but you used the Half-life 2 result, which is a CPU, not GPU intensive game. If you look at the results from Doom3, and Far-Cry from that same review, the results are a lot more dramatic, those two games being far more GPU and texture intensive, the Doom3 results for example:
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2300&p=4
See ya.
