AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 130 nm

Launch date	26 Oct 2017 vs 17 March 2003
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 130 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1429
PassMark - G3D Mark		9
PassMark - G2D Mark		166

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Rankine
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	NV31 A1
Launch date	26 Oct 2017	17 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1350	1032
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	512
Core clock speed		235 MHz
Texture fill rate		940 MTexel / s
Transistor count		80 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	9.0a
OpenGL		1.5 (2.1)
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		None
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		400 MHz
Memory type		DDR