GeForce FX 5500 and Matrox G450 - video card comparison

GeForce FX 5500

Matrox G450

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

G400 (1999−2002)

GPU code name

NV34 B1

Condor

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2004

January 2001

Interface

AGP 8x

PCI

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Core clock speed

270 MHz

125 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

180 nm

Number of transistors

45 million

10 million

Texture fill rate

1.080

0.25

Memory type

DDR

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

32 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

332 MHz

332 MBps

Memory bandwidth

5.312 GB/s

2.656 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

1x DVI, 1x VGA

DirectX

9.0a

6.0

OpenCL

N/A

None

OpenGL

1.5 (2.1)

None

Vulkan

N/A

N/A