AMD Radeon RX Vega 10 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 10 Mobile 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 10 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 10 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 5 month(s) later
16.3x more texture fill rate: 52 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 130 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
46.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1633 vs 35
Around 99% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 374 vs 188

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 October 2017 vs 12 May 2003
Texture fill rate	52 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1633 vs 35
PassMark - G2D Mark	374 vs 188

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Around 33% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 300 MHz

Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 10 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1633

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

374

188

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 10 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900
PassMark - G3D Mark	1633	35
PassMark - G2D Mark	374	188
Geekbench - OpenCL	10265
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	29.977
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	309.874
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.177
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	35.847
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	167.399
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2315
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3162
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3339
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2315
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3162
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3339

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 10 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	Rankine
Code name	Raven	NV35
Launch date	26 October 2017	12 May 2003
Place in performance rating	940	938
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1300 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,664 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	52 GTexel / s	3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt
Transistor count	4,940 million	135 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	AGP 8x
Length		218 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory type	DDR4	DDR
Memory clock speed		700 MHz