Radeon RX 5700 XT 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 rated89
Place by popularitynot in top-10056
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data47.06
Power efficiencyno data13.07
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameNV31Navi 10
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date17 March 2003 (21 year ago)7 July 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$399

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 data2560
Core clock speed235 MHz1605 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1905 MHz
Number of transistors80 million10,300 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data225 Watt
Texture fill rate0.94304.8
Floating-point processing powerno data9.754 TFLOPS
ROPs464
TMUs4160

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 8xPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data272 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed200 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s448.0 GB/s

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-Video1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

Supported technologies

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

VR Readyno data+
Multi Monitorno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0a12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 March 2003 7 July 2019
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 7 nm

RX 5700 XT has an age advantage of 16 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1757.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce FX 5600 XT and Radeon RX 5700 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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