Nvidia RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile vs GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

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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)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV38AD107
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date23 October 2003 (21 year ago)26 February 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$499 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 data2560
Core clock speed475 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2025 MHz
Number of transistors135 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)74 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate3.800162.0
Floating-point processing powerno data10.37 TFLOPS
ROPs448
TMUs880
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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 datalarge
InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 4.0 x8
Length229 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed475 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth30.4 GB/s192.0 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-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0a12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 October 2003 26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 74 Watt 35 Watt

Nvidia RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile has an age advantage of 20 years, a 2300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 2500% more advanced lithography process, and 111.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce FX 5950 Ultra is a desktop card while RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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