3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP vs Radeon RX Vega 3
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 772 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | 80 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | 13.76 | no data |
| Architecture | GCN 5.0 (2017−2020) | Voodoo Scalable (2000) |
| GPU code name | Picasso | VSA-100 |
| Market segment | Desktop | Desktop |
| Release date | 6 January 2019 (5 years ago) | 22 June 2000 (24 years ago) |
| Launch price (MSRP) | no data | $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 | 192 | no data |
| Core clock speed | 300 MHz | 166 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1001 MHz | no data |
| Number of transistors | 4,940 million | 14 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | 250 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 30 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 12.01 | 0.33 |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.3844 TFLOPS | no data |
| ROPs | 4 | 2 |
| TMUs | 12 | 2 |
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 | IGP | AGP 2x |
| Width | IGP | 1-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | None | 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 | System Shared | SDR |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | 32 MB |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | 128 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | 166 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | no data | 2.656 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 Connectors | No outputs | 1x VGA |
API compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | 6.0 |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | no data |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 1.1 |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | N/A |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 | N/A |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 6 January 2019 | 22 June 2000 |
| Chip lithography | 14 nm | 250 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 30 Watt |
RX Vega 3 has an age advantage of 18 years, a 1685.7% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.
We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 3 and 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP. We've got no test results to judge.
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