GeForce FX 5600 XT PCI vs ATI Radeon HD 4720

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	TeraScale (2005−2013)	Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name	RV730	NV31
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	11 December 2011 (13 years ago)	17 March 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	320	no data
Core clock speed	600 MHz	235 MHz
Number of transistors	514 million	80 million
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	55 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	19.20	0.94
Floating-point processing power	0.384 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	8	4
TMUs	32	4
L1 Cache	64 KB	no data
L2 Cache	128 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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI
Length	193 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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	GDDR3	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	667 MHz	200 MHz
Memory bandwidth	21.34 GB/s	6.4 GB/s

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

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x DVI

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	10.1 (10_1)	9.0a
Shader Model	4.1	no data
OpenGL	3.3	1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	11 December 2011	17 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	55 nm	130 nm

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