AMD Radeon Vega 3 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

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

AMD Radeon Vega 3 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 3 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 3 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 130 nm
3.9x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 59 Watt
25.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1034 vs 41
Around 85% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 314 vs 170

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 February 2018 vs 23 October 2003
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 59 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1034 vs 41
PassMark - G2D Mark	314 vs 170

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

Around 50% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 300 MHz

Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 3 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1034

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

314

170

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 3 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark	1034	41
PassMark - G2D Mark	314	170
Geekbench - OpenCL	4468
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	404
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1850
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1850
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3180
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3180

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 3 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	Rankine
Code name	Raven	NV35
Launch date	1 February 2018	23 October 2003
Place in performance rating	1017	1014
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1011 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	59 Watt
Transistor count	4,940 million	135 million
Texture fill rate		1.8 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
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
Memory bandwidth		27.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		850 MHz
Memory type		DDR