GeForce FX 5600 XT and Radeon RX 580 2048SP - video card comparison

GeForce FX 5600 XT

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

NV31

Polaris 20

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2003

October 2018

Interface

AGP 8x

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1284 MHz

Core clock speed

235 MHz

1168 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

80 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

Texture fill rate

0.94

164.4

Memory type

DDR

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

400 MHz

7000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

6.4 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

9.0a

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

1.5 (2.1)

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131