GeForce FX 5900 Ultra and Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling - video card comparison

GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)

GPU code name

NV35

Vega 10

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

October 2003

August 2017

Interface

AGP 8x

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x Molex

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1668 MHz

Core clock speed

450 MHz

1408 MHz

Floating-point performance

14,336 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

135 million

12,500 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4096

Power consumption (TDP)

59 Watt

345 Watt

Texture fill rate

3.600

427.0

Memory type

DDR

HBM2

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

2048 Bit

Memory clock speed

850 MHz

1890 MHz

Memory bandwidth

27.2 GB/s

483.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

9.0a

12 (12_1)

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

1.5 (2.1)

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.1.125