GeForce FX 5100 vs SIS Mirage 3+ 672MX

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1496
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataRankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameSISM672NV34 A1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 January 2007 (18 years ago)6 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 cores3no data
Core clock speed1 MHz200 MHz
Boost clock speed250 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data45 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data150 nm
Texture fill rateno data0.8
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data4

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).

Interfaceno dataAGP 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 typeno dataDDR
Maximum RAM amountno data64 MB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data166 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data2.656 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 data1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data9.0a
OpenGLno data1.5 (2.1)
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 January 2007 6 March 2003

SIS Mirage 3+ 672MX has an age advantage of 3 years.

We couldn't decide between SIS Mirage 3+ 672MX and GeForce FX 5100. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that SIS Mirage 3+ 672MX is a notebook card while GeForce FX 5100 is a desktop one.


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SIS Mirage 3+ 672MX
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