Radeon Graphics vs GeForce FX 5800

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated897
Place by popularitynot in top-10010
Power efficiencyno data9.20
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameNV30Renoir
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date6 March 2003 (21 year ago)no data (2024 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 no data

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 data448
Core clock speed400 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1500 MHz
Number of transistors125 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology130 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)44 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate3.20042.00
Floating-point processing powerno data1.344 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs828

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
Length213 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x Molexno 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 speed400 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/sno 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)
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/Ano data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 130 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 44 Watt 15 Watt

Graphics has a 1757.1% more advanced lithography process, and 193.3% lower power consumption.

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