Radeon 610 vs GeForce FX 5900 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameNV35Banks
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date12 May 2003 (21 year ago)23 May 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 data320
Core clock speed400 MHz1030 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1030 MHz
Number of transistors135 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate3.20020.60
Floating-point processing powerno data0.6592 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs820

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 3.0 x8
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x MolexNone

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 typeDDRGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount128 MB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed350 MHz1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/s36 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 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 May 2003 23 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 50 Watt

FX 5900 XT has 42.9% lower power consumption.

Radeon 610, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 16 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce FX 5900 XT and Radeon 610. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce FX 5900 XT is a desktop card while Radeon 610 is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT
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AMD Radeon 610
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