Radeon 760M vs GeForce 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 rated348
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data71.67
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV31Phoenix
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date17 March 2003 (21 year ago)6 December 2023 (less than a year 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 coresno data512
Core clock speed235 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2599 MHz
Number of transistors80 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rate0.9483.17
Floating-point processing powerno data5.323 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs432
Ray Tracing Coresno data8

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 x8
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount128 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed200 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/sno data
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-VideoPortable Device Dependent

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/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 March 2003 6 December 2023
Chip lithography 130 nm 4 nm

Radeon 760M has an age advantage of 20 years, and a 3150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce FX 5600 XT and Radeon 760M. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT
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AMD Radeon 760M
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