3dfx Voodoo5 6000 vs GeForce GT 820M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking986not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.89no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Voodoo Scalable (2000)
GPU code nameGF117VSA-100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date27 November 2013 (10 years ago)no data (2024 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 cores96no data
Core clock speed775 MHz166 MHz
Number of transistors585 million14 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate12.400.33
Floating-point processing power0.2976 TFLOPSno data
ROPs82
TMUs162

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16AGP 4x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3SDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB32 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz166 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s2.656 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)6.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.1
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 250 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 60 Watt

GT 820M has a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 792.9% more advanced lithography process, and 300% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 820M and 3dfx Voodoo5 6000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GT 820M is a notebook card while 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M
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