GeForce FX 5600 XT vs Radeon R9 M470X

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking501not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameEmeraldNV31
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date15 May 2016 (8 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 cores896no data
Core clock speed1000 MHz235 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,080 million80 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm130 nm
Texture fill rate61.600.94
Floating-point processing power1.971 TFLOPSno data
ROPs164
TMUs564

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
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16AGP 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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount4 GB128 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz200 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s6.4 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)9.0a
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.61.5 (2.1)
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 May 2016 17 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 130 nm

R9 M470X has an age advantage of 13 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 M470X and GeForce FX 5600 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 M470X is a notebook card while GeForce FX 5600 XT is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R9 M470X
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NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT
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