AMD Radeon R5 A330 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 A330 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon R5 A330

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 A330

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 7 month(s) later
4.4x more core clock speed: 1030 MHz vs 235 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
4.5x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 400 MHz

Launch date	21 October 2015 vs 17 March 2003
Core clock speed	1030 MHz vs 235 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 400 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

45.6x more texture fill rate: 940 MTexel / s vs 20.6 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	940 MTexel / s vs 20.6 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 A330
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

Name	AMD Radeon R5 A330	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT
Geekbench - OpenCL	20041
PassMark - G3D Mark		9
PassMark - G2D Mark		166

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R5 A330	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Rankine
Code name	Exo	NV31 A1
Launch date	21 October 2015	17 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1073	1070
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1030 MHz	235 MHz
Floating-point performance	659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	20.6 GTexel / s	940 MTexel / s
Transistor count	1,040 million	80 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	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.5	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR