AMD Radeon R8 M350DX vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R8 M350DX and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon R8 M350DX

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R8 M350DX

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 7 month(s) later
2.9x more core clock speed: 955 MHz vs 325 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm

Launch date	12 December 2015 vs 12 May 2003
Core clock speed	955 MHz vs 325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R8 M350DX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT

Name	AMD Radeon R8 M350DX	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1843
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1843
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1330
Geekbench - OpenCL	19471
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1662
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1662
PassMark - G3D Mark		33
PassMark - G2D Mark		129

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R8 M350DX	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Rankine
Code name	Jet	NV35
Launch date	12 December 2015	12 May 2003
Place in performance rating	1183	1263
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1030 MHz
Core clock speed	955 MHz	325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Transistor count	1,040 million	135 million
Texture fill rate		1.3 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.5	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		700 MHz
Memory type		DDR