GeForce RTX 4070 vs FX 5600 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated20
Place by popularitynot in top-10032
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data53.63
Power efficiencyno data24.09
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV31AD104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date17 March 2003 (21 year ago)12 April 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$599

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 coresno data5888
Core clock speed235 MHz1920 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2475 MHz
Number of transistors80 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data200 Watt
Texture fill rate0.94455.4
Floating-point processing powerno data29.15 TFLOPS
ROPs464
TMUs4184
Tensor Coresno data184
Ray Tracing Coresno data46

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data240 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 16-pin

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 typeDDRGDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount128 MB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed200 MHz1313 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s504.2 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0a12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 March 2003 12 April 2023
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 12 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 5 nm

RTX 4070 has an age advantage of 20 years, a 9500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2500% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce FX 5600 XT and GeForce RTX 4070. We've got no test results to judge.


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