AMD Radeon R9 A375 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 A375 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon R9 A375

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 A375

Videocard is newer: launch date 20 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 89% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 475 MHz
19473.7x more texture fill rate: 37.00 GTexel/s vs 1.9 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
Around 18% higher memory clock speed: 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) vs 950 MHz
17.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1024 vs 59

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2015 vs 23 October 2003
Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 475 MHz
Texture fill rate	37.00 GTexel/s vs 1.9 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) vs 950 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1024 vs 59

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 274 vs 232

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	274 vs 232

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 A375
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

232

274

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1024

Name	AMD Radeon R9 A375	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
PassMark - G2D Mark	232	274
PassMark - G3D Mark	1024	59

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 A375	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Rankine
Code name	Venus	NV38 A1
Launch date	2015	23 October 2003
Place in performance rating	632	609
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Technical info
Boost clock speed	925 MHz
Compute units	10
Core clock speed	900 MHz	475 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1184 GFLOPS
Pipelines	640
Pixel fill rate	14.80 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	37.00 GTexel/s	1.9 GTexel / s
Transistor count	1500 million	135 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		74 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length		229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12	9.0a
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Shader Model	5.1
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	30.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)	950 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR