GeForce FX 5500 and Radeon 9600 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce FX 5500 vs Radeon 9600 XT
GeForce FX 5500
8
Radeon 9600 XT
36
GeForce FX 5500
Radeon 9600 XT
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code name
NV34 B1
RV360
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
500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
45 million
60 million
Power consumption (TDP)
-
22 Watt
Texture fill rate
1.080
2.000
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
332 MHz
600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
5.312 GB/s
9.6 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