GeForce FX 5200 Ultra: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce FX 5200 Ultra provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.03% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce FX 5200 Ultra sales 6 March 2003 at a recommended price of $149 . This is a Rankine architecture desktop card based on 150 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 128 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.33 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 10.4 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 8x interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 171 mm. 1x Molex power connector is required.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce FX 5200 Ultra: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 1486 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Rankine (2003−2005) | |
| GPU code name | NV34 A2 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 6 March 2003 (21 year ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $149 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Detailed specifications
GeForce FX 5200 Ultra's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce FX 5200 Ultra's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 325 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 45 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 150 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 1.300 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 4 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce FX 5200 Ultra and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | AGP 8x | |
| Length | 171 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x Molex |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce FX 5200 Ultra: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | DDR | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 128 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 325 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 10.4 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce FX 5200 Ultra. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce FX 5200 Ultra, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0a | |
| OpenGL | 1.5 (2.1) | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce FX 5200 Ultra. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce FX 5200 Ultra is Radeon 8500, which is slower by 33% and lower by 10 positions in our ranking.
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Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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