NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 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, 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 545

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 545

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 1 month(s) later
3.1x more core clock speed: 720 MHz vs 230 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 140 nm
24x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 64 MB
8x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 200 MHz
138.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1105 vs 8
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 325 vs 152

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	14 May 2011 vs 17 March 2004
Core clock speed	720 MHz vs 230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 140 nm
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1105 vs 8
PassMark - G2D Mark	325 vs 152

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

53.2x more texture fill rate: 920 MTexel / s vs 17.28 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	920 MTexel / s vs 17.28 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 545
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1105

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

325

152

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 545	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
PassMark - G3D Mark	1105	8
PassMark - G2D Mark	325	152
Geekbench - OpenCL	3673
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	10.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	306.536
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.883
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	18.564
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	35.369
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1893
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3323
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1893
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3323
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 545	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Rankine
Code name	GF116	NV34 B1
Launch date	14 May 2011	17 March 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$149	$36.99
Place in performance rating	1086	1089
Price now	$55.59	$36.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	26.90	0.30
Technical info
Core clock speed	720 MHz	230 MHz
Floating-point performance	414.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	140 nm
Pipelines	144
Texture fill rate	17.28 GTexel / s	920 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	70 Watt
Transistor count	1,170 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	145 mm	152 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	38.4 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	200 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR