GeForce FX 5200 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	233	not rated
Place by popularity	96	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	48.70	no data
Power efficiency	12.61	no data
Architecture	RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)	Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name	Navi 14	NV18 C1
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	12 December 2019 (4 years ago)	6 March 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$169	$69.99

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	1408	no data
Core clock speed	1607 MHz	250 MHz
Boost clock speed	1845 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	6,400 million	29 million
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	130 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	162.4	1.000
Floating-point processing power	5.196 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	2
TMUs	88	4

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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	AGP 8x
Length	180 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None

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 type	GDDR6	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	128 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	200 MHz
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	6.4 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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	8.0
Shader Model	6.5	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.3
OpenCL	2.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	12 December 2019	6 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	128 MB
Chip lithography	7 nm	150 nm

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