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.

 

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
  • 52.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 889 vs 17
  • 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 303 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 889 vs 17
PassMark - G2D Mark 303 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
889
17
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
303
122
Name AMD Radeon Vega 3 NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark 889 17
PassMark - G2D Mark 303 122
Geekbench - OpenCL 3939
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 1269 1268
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)