GeForce FX 5800 vs ATI Radeon HD 3200

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1381not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameRS780NV30
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date4 March 2008 (16 years ago)6 March 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$299

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 cores40no data
Core clock speed494 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors180 million125 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data44 Watt
Texture fill rate1.9763.200
Floating-point processing power0.03952 TFLOPSno data
ROPs44
TMUs48

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 1.0 x16AGP 8x
Lengthno data213 mm
WidthIGP2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x Molex

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 typeSystem SharedDDR
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared128 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared400 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data12.8 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.

DirectX10.0 (10_0)9.0a
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.31.5 (2.1)
OpenCL1.0N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 March 2008 6 March 2003
Chip lithography 65 nm 130 nm

ATI HD 3200 has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3200 and GeForce FX 5800. We've got no test results to judge.


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