GeForce FX 5600 Ultra vs 305M

General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GT2xx (2009−2012)	Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name	n11m-lp1	NV31
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	10 January 2010 (14 years ago)	17 March 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$199
Current price	$163	$154 (0.8x MSRP)

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	16	no data
CUDA cores	16	no data
Core clock speed	525 MHz	400 MHz
Number of transistors	260 million	80 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	14 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	4.200	1.600
Floating-point performance	36.8 gflops	no data
Gigaflops	55	no data

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce 305M and GeForce FX 5600 Ultra compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Bus support	PCI-E 2.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	no data	191 mm
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x Molex

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	Up to 512 MB	128 MB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	Up to 700 (DDR3), Up to 700 (GDDR3) MHz	800 MHz
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB/s	12.8 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support	+	no data
HDMI	+	no data
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management

8.0

no data

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_1)	9.0a
Shader Model	4.1	no data
OpenGL	2.1	1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	10 January 2010	17 March 2003
Chip lithography	40 nm	130 nm

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