Ellesmere and GeForce FX 5600 - video card comparison

Ellesmere

GeForce FX 5600

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

Rankine (2003−2005)

GPU code name

Ellesmere

NV31

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2003

Interface

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

None

Core clock speed

325 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

80 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

37 Watt

Texture fill rate

1.300

Memory type

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

8 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

DirectX

12 (12_0)

9.0a

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.5 (2.1)

Shader Model

6.7

Vulkan

1.3

N/A