GeForce FX 5500 and Radeon HD 7490M - video card comparison

GeForce FX 5500

Radeon HD 7490M

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

NV34 B1

Seymour XTX

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

March 2004

December 2011

Interface

AGP 8x

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Core clock speed

270 MHz

800 MHz

Floating-point performance

256.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

45 million

370 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

160

Power consumption (TDP)

9 Watt

Texture fill rate

1.080

6.400

Memory type

DDR

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

512 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

332 MHz

3800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

5.312 GB/s

30.4 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

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

No outputs

DirectX

9.0a

11.2 (11_0)

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

OpenGL

1.5 (2.1)

4.4

Shader Model

5.0

Vulkan

N/A