GeForce FX 5500 and GeForce2 GTS - video card comparison

GeForce FX 5500

GeForce2 GTS

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

Celsius (1999−2005)

GPU code name

NV34 B1

NV15 A5

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2004

April 2000

Interface

AGP 8x

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Core clock speed

270 MHz

200 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

45 million

25 million

Texture fill rate

1.080

1.600

Memory type

DDR

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

32 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

332 MHz

332 MHz

Memory bandwidth

5.312 GB/s

5.312 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

1x VGA

DirectX

9.0a

7.0

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

1.5 (2.1)

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

N/A