GeForce FX 5200 and Matrox G550 - video card comparison

GeForce FX 5200

Matrox G550

Architecture

Celsius (1999−2005)

G500 (2001−2005)

GPU code name

NV18 C1

Condor

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2003

January 2001

Interface

AGP 8x

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

None

-

Core clock speed

250 MHz

125 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

180 nm

Number of transistors

29 million

10 million

Texture fill rate

1.000

0.25

Memory type

DDR

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

32 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

400 MHz

332 MBps

Memory bandwidth

6.4 GB/s

2.656 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

1x DVI, 1x VGA

DirectX

8.0

8.0

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

1.3

1.5

Vulkan

N/A

N/A