Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile vs GeForce 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 rated210
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data22.49
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameNV31TU106
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date17 March 2003 (21 year ago)27 May 2019 (5 years 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 data2304
Core clock speed235 MHz945 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1380 MHz
Number of transistors80 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data80 Watt
Texture fill rate0.94198.7
Floating-point processing powerno data6.359 TFLOPS
ROPs464
TMUs4144
Tensor Coresno data288
Ray Tracing Coresno data36

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 3.0 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 MB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed200 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s448.0 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-VideoNo outputs
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

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

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0a12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 March 2003 27 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 12 nm

RTX 3000 Mobile has an age advantage of 16 years, a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 983.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce FX 5600 XT and Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce FX 5600 XT is a desktop card while Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT
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