GeForce FX 5500 and GeForce4 MX 440-8x - video card comparison

GeForce FX 5500

GeForce4 MX 440-8x

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

Celsius (1999−2005)

GPU code name

NV34 B1

NV18 A2

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2004

September 2002

Interface

AGP 8x

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Core clock speed

270 MHz

275 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

45 million

29 million

Texture fill rate

1.080

1.100

Memory type

DDR

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

32 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

32 Bit

Memory clock speed

332 MHz

500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

5.312 GB/s

2 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

1x VGA, 1x S-Video

DirectX

9.0a

8.0

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

1.5 (2.1)

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

N/A