GeForce FX 5200 LE vs NVS 3100M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1226not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.59no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameGT218NV34 A2
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)17 March 2003 (21 year 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 cores16no data
Core clock speed606 MHz250 MHz
Number of transistors260 million45 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)14 Wattno data
Texture fill rate4.8481.000
Floating-point processing power0.04698 TFLOPSno data
ROPs44
TMUs84

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 2.0 x16AGP 8x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount512 MB128 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed790 MHz166 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.64 GB/s2.656 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 outputs1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)9.0a
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.31.5 (2.1)
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.2-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 17 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 128 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 150 nm

NVS 3100M has an age advantage of 6 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 275% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between NVS 3100M and GeForce FX 5200 LE. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that NVS 3100M is a mobile workstation card while GeForce FX 5200 LE is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA NVS 3100M
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