GeForce FX 5900 XT and Radeon R7 M520 - video card comparison
GeForce FX 5900 XT
Radeon R7 M520
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
NV35
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2003
April 2017
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x Molex
None
Core clock speed
400 MHz
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
135 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
320
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.200
20.60
Memory type
DDR
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
16 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
9.0a
12.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
1.5 (2.1)
4.6
Shader Model
-
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
-