GeForce FX 5500 and Radeon 9500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce FX 5500 vs Radeon 9500
GeForce FX 5500
8
Radeon 9500
37
GeForce FX 5500
Radeon 9500
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
NV34 B1
R300
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2004
March 2003
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
110 million
Power consumption (TDP)
-
12 Watt
Texture fill rate
1.080
1.100
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
332 MHz
540 MHz
Memory bandwidth
5.312 GB/s
17.28 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0a
9.0 (9_0)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
1.5 (2.1)
2.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A