Radeon Vega 7 vs GeForce FX 5500

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared GeForce FX 5500 with Radeon Vega 7, including specs and performance data.

FX 5500
2004
64 MB DDR
0.02

Vega 7 outperforms FX 5500 by a whopping 37250% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1488532
Place by popularitynot in top-10018
Power efficiencyno data11.38
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameNV34 B1Cezanne
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date17 March 2004 (20 years ago)13 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$36.99 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data448
Core clock speed270 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1900 MHz
Number of transistors45 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data45 Watt
Texture fill rate1.08053.20
Floating-point processing powerno data1.702 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs428

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceAGP 8xIGP
Length152 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount64 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed166 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth5.312 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

Connectivity and outputs

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0a12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.2

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD-0−122
1440p-0−132
4K-0−116

Cost per frame, $

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.02 7.47
Recency 17 March 2004 13 April 2021
Chip lithography 150 nm 7 nm

Vega 7 has a 37250% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 17 years, and a 2042.9% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon Vega 7 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce FX 5500 in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce FX 5500 is a desktop card while Radeon Vega 7 is a notebook one.


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