Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs GeForce FX 5900

Place in the ranking	1463	202
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	53.47
Architecture	Rankine (2003−2005)	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code name	NV35	AD107
Market segment	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Release date	12 May 2003 (21 year ago)	26 February 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$399	no data

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 cores	no data	2048
Core clock speed	400 MHz	1485 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	2025 MHz
Number of transistors	135 million	18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	3.200	129.6
Floating-point processing power	no data	8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	32
TMUs	8	64
Tensor Cores	no data	64
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	16

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 size	no data	medium sized
Interface	AGP 8x	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	218 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex	no 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 type	DDR	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	4 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	425 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	27.2 GB/s	128.0 GB/s
Shared memory	no 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 Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX	9.0a	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	no data	6.8
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	4.6
OpenCL	N/A	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
CUDA	-	8.9

Gaming performance

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

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.09	27.30
Recency	12 May 2003	26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	4 GB
Chip lithography	130 nm	5 nm

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile has a 30233.3% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 20 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2500% more advanced lithography process.

The RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce FX 5900 in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce FX 5900 is a desktop card while RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.