GeForce FX 5500 and GeForce 310 OEM - video card comparison

GeForce FX 5500

GeForce 310 OEM

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

NV34 B1

GT218

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2004

November 2009

Interface

AGP 8x

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Core clock speed

270 MHz

589 MHz

Floating-point performance

44.86 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

45 million

260 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

Power consumption (TDP)

31 Watt

Texture fill rate

1.080

4.712

Memory type

DDR

DDR2

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

512 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

332 MHz

666 MHz

Memory bandwidth

5.312 GB/s

5.328 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA

DirectX

9.0a

11.1 (10_1)

CUDA

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

OpenGL

1.5 (2.1)

3.3

Shader Model

4.1

Vulkan

N/A