Radeon 535 Mobile vs GeForce FX 5700 Ultra

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameNV36Polaris 24
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date23 October 2003 (21 year ago)18 April 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 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 data384
Core clock speed475 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1024 MHz
Number of transistors82 million1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)46 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate1.90024.58
Floating-point processing powerno data0.7864 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs424

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 3.0 x8
Length229 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x Molexno 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 typeGDDR2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount128 MB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed453 MHz1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.5 GB/s36 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-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0a12 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.3
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 October 2003 18 April 2017
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 46 Watt 50 Watt

FX 5700 Ultra has 8.7% lower power consumption.

535 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 13 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce FX 5700 Ultra and Radeon 535 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce FX 5700 Ultra is a desktop card while Radeon 535 Mobile is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra
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AMD Radeon 535 Mobile
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