GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile vs FX 5600 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated74
Place by popularitynot in top-10051
Power efficiencyno data27.26
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV31AD107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date17 March 2003 (21 year ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)

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 data3072
Core clock speed235 MHz1545 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1890 MHz
Number of transistors80 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology130 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data115 Watt
Texture fill rate0.94181.4
Floating-point processing powerno data11.61 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs496
Tensor Coresno data96
Ray Tracing Coresno data24

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 4.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount128 MB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed200 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s256.0 GB/s
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-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0a12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 March 2003 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 4 nm

RTX 4060 Mobile has an age advantage of 19 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 3150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce FX 5600 XT and GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce FX 5600 XT is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT
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