AMD Radeon Pro 555X vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 555X and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon Pro 555X

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 555X

Videocard is newer: launch date 15 year(s) 2 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 907 MHz vs 400 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 130 nm
7.3x more memory clock speed: 5100 MHz vs 700 MHz

Launch date	16 July 2018 vs 12 May 2003
Core clock speed	907 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 130 nm
Memory clock speed	5100 MHz vs 700 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 555X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 555X	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900
Geekbench - OpenCL	12706
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	35.283
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	668.308
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.158
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	49.593
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	170.952
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4093
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4093
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3351
PassMark - G3D Mark		35
PassMark - G2D Mark		188

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 555X	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Rankine
Code name	Polaris 21	NV35
Launch date	16 July 2018	12 May 2003
Place in performance rating	964	961
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Technical info
Core clock speed	907 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	768
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	135 million
Texture fill rate		3.2 GTexel / s
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	None	1x Molex
Length		218 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.5	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5100 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		22.4 GB / s