GeForce FX 5200 Rev. 2 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking148not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation25.09no data
Power efficiency11.30no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameVega 10NV34 B1
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date14 August 2017 (7 years ago)6 March 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores3584no data
Core clock speed1156 MHz250 MHz
Boost clock speed1471 MHzno data
Number of transistors12,500 million45 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)210 Wattno data
Texture fill rate329.51.000
Floating-point processing power10.54 TFLOPSno data
ROPs644
TMUs2244

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 3.0 x16AGP 8x
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinNone

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 typeHBM2DDR
Maximum RAM amount8 GB128 MB
Memory bus width2048 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz200 MHz
Memory bandwidth409.6 GB/s3.2 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)9.0a
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.61.5 (2.1)
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.1.125N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 August 2017 6 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 14 nm 150 nm

RX Vega 56 has an age advantage of 14 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 971.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 56 and GeForce FX 5200 Rev. 2. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
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