NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 and NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2.8x more core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 140 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 32 MB
4.3x more memory clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 400 MHz

Launch date	14 November 2005 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 140 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	1700 MHz vs 400 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

60.6x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 13.2 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 13.2 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200
PassMark - G2D Mark		190
PassMark - G3D Mark		8

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rankine
Code name	G70	NV34 B1
Launch date	14 November 2005	1 March 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$649
Place in performance rating	not rated	963
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	140 nm
Texture fill rate	13.2 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	108 Watt
Transistor count	302 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	228 mm
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0a
OpenGL	2.1	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	54.4 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1700 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR