3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP vs Radeon Graphics

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking897not rated
Place by popularity10not in top-100
Power efficiency9.20no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)Voodoo Scalable (2000)
GPU code nameRenoirVSA-100
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)22 June 2000 (24 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$299

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 cores448no data
Core clock speedno data166 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data14 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate42.000.33
Floating-point processing power1.344 TFLOPSno data
ROPs82
TMUs282

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).

InterfaceIGPAGP 2x
WidthIGP1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 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 typeSystem SharedSDR
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared32 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared166 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data2.656 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 (12_1)6.0
OpenGL4.61.1
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 7 nm 250 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 30 Watt

Graphics has a 3471.4% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

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