GeForce FX 5700 EP vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking235not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation48.25no data
Power efficiency12.50no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameNavi 14NV36
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date12 December 2019 (5 years ago)1 September 2004 (20 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$169 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores1408no data
Core clock speed1607 MHz425 MHz
Boost clock speed1845 MHzno data
Number of transistors6,400 million82 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)130 Wattno data
Texture fill rate162.41.700
Floating-point processing power5.196 TFLOPSno data
ROPs324
TMUs884

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 4.0 x8AGP 8x
Length180 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6DDR
Maximum RAM amount8 GB128 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz200 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s3.2 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)9.0a
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.61.5 (2.1)
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 December 2019 1 September 2004
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 7 nm 130 nm

RX 5500 XT has an age advantage of 15 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1757.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5500 XT and GeForce FX 5700 EP. We've got no test results to judge.


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