NVIDIA's GeForce 6200 & 6600 non-GT: Affordable Gaming

Battlefield Vietnam Performance

The Battlefield series continues to be popular; with no built-in benchmark, we're forced to develop a benchmark by starting a multi-player game in the Quang Tri 1972 level and manually navigate through a path using FRAPS to record the average frame rate.

We kept all of the settings at high except for the graphics detail slider, which we had to keep at low in order to provide a true "apples to apples" comparison between all of the cards here. The standings will remain the same at higher detail settings; the frame rates will simply be lower.

The X700 continues to dominate performance here, outperforming the GeForce 660 by 32%. In the lower end of things, the X600 Pro and the GeForce 6200 are pretty much neck and neck, with the X300 clearly falling behind.


The rest of the resolution picture isn't much different from what we've already shown you:

Notes from the Lab

ATI X600 Pro: Mouse isn't as laggy, but still laggy enough, especially at 12x10.

ATI X700: This continues to dominate performance here as well.

NVIDIA GeForce 6200: The mouse speed is erratic in the menus before you enter a game. The card isn't really considered "fast", but smooth at 800x600.

NVIDIA GeForce 6600: Performance is much better than the 6200, and the mouse still lags in the menu for some reason. This card plays the game nice and fast.

Intel Integrated Graphics: At 800x600, it actually plays and looks pretty decent. Graphics quality always defaults to lowest for some reason. The mouse is surprisingly not as laggy as on the NV cards.