GeForce FX 5700 Engineering Sample vs Radeon 820M
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Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 676 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 (2024−2025) | Rankine (2003−2005) |
| GPU code name | Krackan Point | NV36S |
| Market segment | Laptop | Desktop |
| Release date | March 2025 (1 year ago) | 18 August 2003 (22 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 cores | 128 | no data |
| Core clock speed | 400 MHz | 425 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 2800 MHz | no data |
| Number of transistors | no data | 82 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 4 nm | 130 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 25 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 22.40 | 1.700 |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.7168 TFLOPS | no data |
| ROPs | 4 | 4 |
| TMUs | 8 | 4 |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 2 | no data |
| L0 Cache | 32 KB | no data |
| L1 Cache | 32 KB | no data |
| L2 Cache | 1024 KB | 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).
| Laptop size | medium sized | no data |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | AGP 8x |
| Width | no data | 1-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | None | 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 | System Shared | DDR |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | 128 MB |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | 128 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | 250 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | no data | 8 GB/s |
| Shared memory | + | no data |
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 | Portable Device Dependent | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 9.0a |
| Shader Model | 6.8 | no data |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 1.5 (full) 2.0 (partial) |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | N/A |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | N/A |
Pros & cons summary
| Chip lithography | 4 nm | 130 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 25 Watt |
Radeon 820M has a 3150% more advanced lithography process, and 67% lower power consumption.
We couldn't decide between Radeon 820M and GeForce FX 5700 Engineering Sample. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that Radeon 820M is a notebook graphics card while GeForce FX 5700 Engineering Sample is a desktop one.
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