AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550X Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 15 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 3.4x more core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 325 MHz
  • 39600x more texture fill rate: 51.48 GTexel/s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 150 nm
  • 32x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 128 MB
  • 10.8x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 650 MHz
Launch date 3 April 2018 vs 6 March 2003
Core clock speed 1100 MHz vs 325 MHz
Texture fill rate 51.48 GTexel/s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 650 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550X Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

Name AMD Radeon 550X Mobile NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2322
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2322
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1748
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1748
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2522
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2522
Geekbench - OpenCL 10522
PassMark - G3D Mark 12
PassMark - G2D Mark 138

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Rankine
Code name Lexa NV34 A2
Design Radeon 500X Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 3 April 2018 6 March 2003
Place in performance rating 1180 1177
Type Desktop, Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $149

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1287 MHz
Compute units 8/10
Core clock speed 1100 MHz 325 MHz
Floating-point performance 1.65 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 150 nm
Pipelines 640
Pixel fill rate 20.60 GP/s
Render output units 16
Stream Processors 512/640
Texture fill rate 51.48 GTexel/s 1.3 GTexel / s
Texture Units 40
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt
Transistor count 2,200 million 45 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 AGP 8x
Length 171 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x Molex

API support

DirectX 12 9.0a
OpenGL 4.5 1.5 (2.1)
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 56 GB/s 10.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz 650 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support