AMD Radeon Vega 3 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 3 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, API support. 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Vega 3

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 3

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 10 month(s) later
8.6x more texture fill rate: 12 GTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 130 nm
52.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 890 vs 17
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 306 vs 122

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 February 2018 vs 17 March 2003
Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	890 vs 17
PassMark - G2D Mark	306 vs 122

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra

Around 17% higher core clock speed: 350 MHz vs 300 MHz

Core clock speed	350 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 3
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

890

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

306

122

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 3	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark	890	17
PassMark - G2D Mark	306	122
Geekbench - OpenCL	3931
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	10.049
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	183.156
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.75
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	18.933
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	60.006
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1412
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2111
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3174
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1412
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2111
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3174
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	418

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 3	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	Rankine
Code name	Owl	NV31 A1
Launch date	13 February 2018	17 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1264	1262
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$199
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	350 MHz
Floating-point performance	384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	192
Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s	1.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Transistor count	4,940 million	80 million
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	None	1x Molex
Length		191 mm
Memory
Memory type	System Shared	DDR
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		700 MHz
API support
DirectX		9.0a
OpenGL		1.5 (2.1)