NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 38% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 325 MHz
8.3x more texture fill rate: 10.8 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
2.4x more memory clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 550 MHz
19.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 258 vs 13

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 March 2006 vs 6 March 2003
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 325 MHz
Texture fill rate	10.8 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1320 MHz vs 550 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	258 vs 13

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600

Around 30% lower typical power consumption: 37 Watt vs 48 Watt
Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 168 vs 160

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	37 Watt vs 48 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	168 vs 160

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

258

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

160

168

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600
PassMark - G3D Mark	258	13
PassMark - G2D Mark	160	168

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rankine
Code name	G71	NV31 A1
Launch date	9 March 2006	6 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1021	1024
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	10.8 GTexel / s	1.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	48 Watt	37 Watt
Transistor count	278 million	80 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0a
OpenGL	2.1	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	42.2 GB / s	8.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1320 MHz	550 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR