GeForce FX 5200 Ultra vs Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking983not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.29no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameStoney RidgeNV34 A2
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)6 March 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$149

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 cores192no data
Core clock speedno data325 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data45 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-45 Wattno data
Texture fill rateno data1.300
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data4

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataAGP 8x
Lengthno data171 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x Molex

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 typeno dataDDR
Maximum RAM amountno data128 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data325 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data10.4 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 data1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)9.0a
OpenGLno data1.5 (2.1)
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2016 6 March 2003
Chip lithography 28 nm 150 nm

R5 (Stoney Ridge) has an age advantage of 13 years, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) and GeForce FX 5200 Ultra. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) is a notebook card while GeForce FX 5200 Ultra is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)
Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

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