GeForce FX 5900 XT and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti - video card comparison
GeForce FX 5900 XT
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
NV35
Ampere GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2003
December 2020
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x Molex
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1665 MHz
Core clock speed
400 MHz
1410 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
135 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
4864
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
220 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.200
253.1
Memory type
DDR
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
448.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
9.0a
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
N/A
2.0
OpenGL
1.5 (2.1)
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2