AMD Radeon R5 A330 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 A330 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon R5 A330

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 A330

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 7 month(s) later
4.1x more core clock speed: 1030 MHz vs 250 MHz
20.6x more texture fill rate: 20.6 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
4.5x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 400 MHz

Launch date	21 October 2015 vs 6 March 2003
Core clock speed	1030 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	20.6 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 A330
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

Name	AMD Radeon R5 A330	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Geekbench - OpenCL	20041
PassMark - G3D Mark		8
PassMark - G2D Mark		154

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R5 A330	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Rankine
Code name	Exo	NV34 A2
Launch date	21 October 2015	6 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1084	1081
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$69.99
Price now		$69.99
Value for money (0-100)		0.12
Technical info
Core clock speed	1030 MHz	250 MHz
Floating-point performance	659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	20.6 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Transistor count	1,040 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
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.5	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR