Radeon RX Vega 3 vs GeForce FX 5700 LE

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated779
Place by popularitynot in top-10086
Power efficiencyno data14.58
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameNV36Picasso
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 March 2004 (20 years ago)6 January 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 data192
Core clock speed250 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1001 MHz
Number of transistors82 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rate1.00012.01
Floating-point processing powerno data0.3844 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs412

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 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 typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount128 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed200 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth3.2 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/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2004 6 January 2019
Chip lithography 130 nm 14 nm

RX Vega 3 has an age advantage of 14 years, and a 828.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce FX 5700 LE and Radeon RX Vega 3. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce FX 5700 LE is a desktop card while Radeon RX Vega 3 is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE
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