GeForce FX 5900 ZT vs GTS 350M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1091not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.59no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameGT215NV35
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)12 May 2003 (21 year 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 cores96no data
Core clock speed500 MHz325 MHz
Number of transistors727 million135 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)28 Wattno data
Texture fill rate16.002.600
Floating-point processing power0.24 TFLOPSno data
Gigaflops360no data
ROPs84
TMUs328

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 sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfaceMXM-IIAGP 8x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x Molex
SLI options+-
MXM TypeMXM 3.0 Type-Bno 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 typeGDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB128 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speedUp to 2000 MHz350 MHz
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/s22.4 GB/s
Shared memory-no 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 ConnectorsDisplayPortLVDSHDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIVGA1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management8.0no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)9.0a
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL2.11.5 (2.1)
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 12 May 2003
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 130 nm

GTS 350M has an age advantage of 6 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTS 350M and GeForce FX 5900 ZT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTS 350M is a notebook card while GeForce FX 5900 ZT is a desktop one.


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