Radeon Graphics 384SP vs GeForce PCX 5900

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1457not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameNV35Cezanne
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date17 March 2003 (21 year ago)13 April 2021 (3 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 data384
Core clock speed350 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1700 MHz
Number of transistors135 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data45 Watt
Texture fill rate2.80040.80
Floating-point processing powerno data1.306 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs824

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16IGP
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed275 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth17.6 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 data6.7 (6.4)
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 March 2003 13 April 2021
Chip lithography 130 nm 7 nm

Graphics 384SP has an age advantage of 18 years, and a 1757.1% more advanced lithography process.

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NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5900
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