NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 vs AMD Radeon R7 350

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	566	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	1.06	no data
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name	Cape Verde	NV34 B1
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	6 July 2016 (7 years old)	17 March 2004 (20 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$36.99
Current price	$142	$135 (3.6x MSRP)

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	512	no data
Core clock speed	800 MHz	270 MHz
Number of transistors	1,500 million	45 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	55 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	25.60	1.080
Floating-point performance	819.2 gflops	no data

Size and 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 3.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	168 mm	152 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

Memory

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	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz	332 MHz
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	5.312 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	no data

API support

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	9.0a
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	6 July 2016	17 March 2004
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	150 nm

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