GeForce FX 5600 XT PCI vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking143not rated
Place by popularity90not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation54.96no data
Power efficiency16.12no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameNavi 10NV31
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date21 January 2020 (4 years ago)17 March 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$279 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores2304no data
Core clock speed1130 MHz235 MHz
Boost clock speed1560 MHzno data
Number of transistors10,300 million80 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Wattno data
Texture fill rate224.60.94
Floating-point processing power7.188 TFLOPSno data
ROPs644
TMUs1444

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCI
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6DDR
Maximum RAM amount6 GB64 MB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz200 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/s6.4 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x DVI
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)9.0a
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.61.5 (2.1)
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 January 2020 17 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 7 nm 130 nm

RX 5600 XT has an age advantage of 16 years, a 9500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1757.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5600 XT and GeForce FX 5600 XT PCI. We've got no test results to judge.


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