3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP vs GeForce RTX 5070

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	20	not rated
Place by popularity	19	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	73.66	no data
Power efficiency	21.13	no data
Architecture	Blackwell 2.0 (2025)	Voodoo Scalable (2000)
GPU code name	GB205	VSA-100
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	4 March 2025 (less than a year ago)	22 June 2000 (25 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$549	$299

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

Performance to price scatter graph

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	6144	no data
Core clock speed	2325 MHz	166 MHz
Boost clock speed	2512 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	31,100 million	14 million
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	30 Watt
Texture fill rate	482.3	0.33 ×2
Floating-point processing power	30.87 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	80	2 ×2
TMUs	192	2 ×2
Tensor Cores	192	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	48	no 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).

Interface	PCIe 5.0 x16	AGP 2x
Length	245 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 16-pin	1x Molex

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	GDDR7	SDR
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	32 MB ×2
Memory bus width	192 Bit	128 Bit ×2
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	166 MHz
Memory bandwidth	672.0 GB/s	2.656 GB/s ×2
Resizable BAR	+	-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1b	1x VGA
HDMI	+	-

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	6.0
Shader Model	6.8	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.1
OpenCL	3.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.4	N/A
CUDA	10.1	-
DLSS	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	4 March 2025	22 June 2000
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	32 MB
Chip lithography	5 nm	250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	30 Watt

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