GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile vs FX 5200 Ultra Mac Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated92
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data25.49
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNV34 A2GA104
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date6 March 2003 (21 year ago)12 January 2021 (3 years 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 coresno data6144
Core clock speed325 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1545 MHz
Number of transistors45 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data115 Watt
Texture fill rate1.300296.6
Floating-point processing powerno data18.98 TFLOPS
ROPs496
TMUs4192
Tensor Coresno data192
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfaceAGP Pro 8xPCIe 4.0 x16
Length171 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount128 MB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed325 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth10.4 GB/s448.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 Connectors2x DVINo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0a12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 March 2003 12 January 2021
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 8 nm

RTX 3080 Mobile has an age advantage of 17 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1775% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce FX 5200 Ultra Mac Edition and GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce FX 5200 Ultra Mac Edition is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra Mac Edition
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