GeForce FX 5500 and Radeon 9700 PRO - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce FX 5500 vs Radeon 9700 PRO
GeForce FX 5500
8
Radeon 9700 PRO
55
GeForce FX 5500
Radeon 9700 PRO
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
NV34 B1
R300
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2004
July 2002
Interface
AGP 8x
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
Floppy
Core clock speed
270 MHz
325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
45 million
110 million
Texture fill rate
1.080
2.600
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
332 MHz
620 MHz
Memory bandwidth
5.312 GB/s
19.84 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