Caicos and GeForce FX 5500 - video card comparison

Caicos

GeForce FX 5500

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

Rankine (2003−2005)

GPU code name

Caicos

NV34 B1

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2004

Interface

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

None

Core clock speed

270 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

370 million

45 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

160

Texture fill rate

1.080

Memory type

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

332 MHz

Memory bandwidth

5.312 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

9.0a

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.4

1.5 (2.1)

Shader Model

5.0

Vulkan

N/A