GeForce FX 5600 XT vs HD Graphics 5000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking974not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.47no data
ArchitectureGeneration 7.5 (2013)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameHaswell GT3NV31
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date27 May 2013 (11 years ago)17 March 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 cores320no data
Core clock speed200 MHz235 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,300 million80 million
Manufacturing process technology22 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Wattno data
Texture fill rate40.000.94
Floating-point processing power0.64 TFLOPSno data
ROPs44
TMUs404

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).

InterfaceRing BusAGP 8x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedDDR
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared128 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared200 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data6.4 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Supported technologies

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

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)9.0a
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.31.5 (2.1)
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan+N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 May 2013 17 March 2003
Chip lithography 22 nm 130 nm

HD Graphics 5000 has an age advantage of 10 years, and a 490.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 5000 and GeForce FX 5600 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics 5000 is a notebook card while GeForce FX 5600 XT is a desktop one.


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Intel HD Graphics 5000
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