Jetson AGX Xavier vs GeForce FX 5600

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1483not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.06no data
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)Volta (2017−2020)
GPU code nameNV31GV10B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date6 March 2003 (21 year ago)October 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$899

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 speed325 MHz854 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1377 MHz
Number of transistors80 million9,000 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)37 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate1.30044.06
Floating-point processing powerno data1.41 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs432
Tensor Coresno data64

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 8xIGP
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 speed250 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth8 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-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0a12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-7.2

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 130 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 37 Watt 30 Watt

Jetson AGX Xavier has a 983.3% more advanced lithography process, and 23.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce FX 5600 and Jetson AGX Xavier. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce FX 5600 is a desktop card while Jetson AGX Xavier is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600
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