Radeon RX 5500M vs GeForce FX 5700 LE

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated358
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data11.83
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameNV36Navi 14
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 March 2004 (20 years ago)7 October 2019 (5 years 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 data1408
Core clock speed250 MHz1375 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1645 MHz
Number of transistors82 million6,400 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data85 Watt
Texture fill rate1.000144.8
Floating-point processing powerno data4.632 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs488

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount128 MB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed200 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth3.2 GB/s224.0 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-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0a12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2004 7 October 2019
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 7 nm

RX 5500M has an age advantage of 15 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1757.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce FX 5700 LE and Radeon RX 5500M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce FX 5700 LE is a desktop card while Radeon RX 5500M is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE
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