GeForce FX 5200 PCI vs ION 2

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1305not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.13no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameGT218NV34 B1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date3 June 2008 (16 years ago)6 March 2003 (21 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16no data
Core clock speed500 MHz250 MHz
Number of transistors260 million45 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Wattno data
Texture fill rate4.0001.000
Floating-point processing power0.03424 TFLOPSno data
ROPs44
TMUs84

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCI
Lengthno data152 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeSystem SharedDDR
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared256 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared200 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data6.4 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_1)9.0a
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.31.5 (2.1)
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.2-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 June 2008 6 March 2003
Chip lithography 40 nm 150 nm

ION 2 has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 275% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between ION 2 and GeForce FX 5200 PCI. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that ION 2 is a notebook card while GeForce FX 5200 PCI is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA ION 2
ION 2
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GeForce FX 5200 PCI

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