GeForce 9800 GT and GeForce FX 5500 PCI - video card comparison

GeForce 9800 GT

GeForce FX 5500 PCI

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Rankine (2003−2005)

GPU code name

G92

NV34 B1

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

July 2008

March 2004

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCI

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

None

SLI options

Core clock speed

600 MHz

270 MHz

CUDA cores

112

Floating-point performance

336.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

45 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

112

Power consumption (TDP)

105 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

Texture fill rate

33.6 billion/sec

1.080

Memory type

GDDR3

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

256 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

57.6 GB/s

6.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

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

Multi monitor support

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

9.0a

CUDA

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

2.1

1.5 (2.1)

Shader Model

4.0

Vulkan

N/A