AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550X Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 10 month(s) later
2.8x more core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 400 MHz
32175x more texture fill rate: 51.48 GTexel/s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 130 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 128 MB
10x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 700 MHz

Launch date	3 April 2018 vs 12 May 2003
Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	51.48 GTexel/s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 700 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT

Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 50 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550X Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT

Name	AMD Radeon 550X Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2322
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2322
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1748
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1748
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2522
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2522
Geekbench - OpenCL	9692
PassMark - G3D Mark		40
PassMark - G2D Mark		134

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 550X Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Rankine
Code name	Lexa	NV35
Design	Radeon 500X Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	3 April 2018	12 May 2003
Place in performance rating	1199	1196
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1287 MHz
Compute units	8/10
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	1.65 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	640
Pixel fill rate	20.60 GP/s
Render output units	16
Stream Processors	512/640
Texture fill rate	51.48 GTexel/s	1.6 GTexel / s
Texture Units	40
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	2,200 million	135 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12	9.0a
OpenGL	4.5	1.5 (2.1)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	56 GB/s	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support