3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI vs GeForce RTX 5070

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Blackwell 2.0 (2025)	Voodoo Scalable (2000)
GPU code name	GB205	VSA-100
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	February 2025	22 June 2000 (24 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$549	$299

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 cores	6144	no data
Core clock speed	2165 MHz	166 MHz
Boost clock speed	2510 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	no data	14 million
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	30 Watt
Texture fill rate	481.9	0.33
Floating-point processing power	30.84 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	64	2
TMUs	192	2
Tensor Cores	192	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	48	no data

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).

Interface	PCIe 5.0 x16	PCI
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 16-pin	1x Molex

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 type	GDDR7	SDR
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	32 MB
Memory bus width	192 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2209 MHz	166 MHz
Memory bandwidth	672.2 GB/s	2.656 GB/s

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 Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1a	1x VGA
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	6.0
Shader Model	6.8	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.1
OpenCL	3.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.4	N/A
CUDA	10.1	-

Pros & cons summary

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Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	32 MB
Chip lithography	4 nm	250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	30 Watt

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