AMD Radeon R6 M255DX vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R6 M255DX 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon R6 M255DX

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R6 M255DX

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 95% higher core clock speed: 780 MHz vs 400 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
15.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 605 vs 40

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2014 vs 12 May 2003
Core clock speed	780 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	605 vs 40

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT

Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 134 vs 116

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	134 vs 116

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R6 M255DX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

116

134

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

605

Name	AMD Radeon R6 M255DX	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT
Geekbench - OpenCL	17123
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1055
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1055
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1927
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1927
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3563
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3563
PassMark - G2D Mark	116	134
PassMark - G3D Mark	605	40

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R6 M255DX	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Rankine
Code name	Jet	NV35
Launch date	7 January 2014	12 May 2003
Place in performance rating	1196	1193
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	855 MHz
Core clock speed	780 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	576
Transistor count	1,040 million	135 million
Texture fill rate		1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		35 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	AGP 8x
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.5	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Memory type	DDR3	DDR
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		700 MHz
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
Enduro
Powerplay