GeForce FX 5200: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce FX 5200 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.02% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.
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Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce FX 5200 sales 6 March 2003 at a recommended price of $69.99. This is a Celsius architecture desktop card based on 150 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 128 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.2 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 6.4 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 8x interface.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce FX 5200: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 1547 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Celsius (1999−2005) | |
| GPU code name | NV18 C1 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 6 March 2003 (22 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $69.99 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce FX 5200's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce FX 5200's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 250 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 29 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 150 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 1.000 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 2 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 4 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce FX 5200 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 | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce FX 5200: 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 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 200 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 6.4 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce FX 5200. 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 and SDK support
APIs supported by GeForce FX 5200, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 8.0 | |
| OpenGL | 1.3 | of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce FX 5200. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
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.
Send your test results of GeForce FX 5200.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce FX 5200 is Radeon IGP 320, which is slower by 50% and lower by 29 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce FX 5200:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce FX 5200 according to our statistics.
