GeForce FX 5500 and Radeon 9600 SE - video card comparison
GeForce FX 5500
Radeon 9600 SE
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
NV34 B1
RV350
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2004
October 2003
Interface
AGP 8x
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
270 MHz
325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
45 million
60 million
Texture fill rate
1.080
1.300
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
332 MHz
400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
5.312 GB/s
3.2 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