GeForce FX 5600 XT PCI vs RTX 3080 Ti

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking19not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation22.70no data
Power efficiency13.77no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameGA102NV31
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date31 May 2021 (3 years ago)17 March 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,199 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 cores10240no data
Core clock speed1365 MHz235 MHz
Boost clock speed1665 MHzno data
Number of transistors28,300 million80 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)350 Wattno data
Texture fill rate532.80.94
Floating-point processing power34.1 TFLOPSno data
ROPs1124
TMUs3204
Tensor Cores320no data
Ray Tracing Cores80no data

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 4.0 x16PCI
Length285 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6XDDR
Maximum RAM amount12 GB64 MB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1188 MHz200 MHz
Memory bandwidth912.4 GB/s6.4 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x DVI
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)9.0a
Shader Model6.6no data
OpenGL4.61.5 (2.1)
OpenCL3.0N/A
Vulkan1.2N/A
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 May 2021 17 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 8 nm 130 nm

RTX 3080 Ti has an age advantage of 18 years, a 19100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1525% more advanced lithography process.

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