GeForce FX 5600 and Venus - video card comparison

GeForce FX 5600

Venus

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

NV31

Venus

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2003

Interface

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

None

Core clock speed

325 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

80 million

1,500 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

Power consumption (TDP)

37 Watt

Texture fill rate

1.300

Memory type

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

8 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

DirectX

9.0a

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

N/A

2.1 (1.2)

OpenGL

1.5 (2.1)

4.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.170