
Radeon E8950 and GeForce FX 5200 - video card comparison
Radeon E8950
GeForce FX 5200
Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name
Amethyst
NV18 C1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2015
March 2003
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
735 MHz
250 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
5,000 million
29 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
-
Power consumption (TDP)
95 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
128.0
1.000
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 (12_0)
8.0
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
-
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A