GeForce FX 5500 and Radeon HD 8590M - video card comparison
GeForce FX 5500
Radeon HD 8590M
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
NV34 B1
Sun
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2004
November 2012
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
-
825 MHz
Core clock speed
270 MHz
620 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
528.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
45 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
384
Texture fill rate
1.080
16.50
Memory type
DDR
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
332 MHz
4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
5.312 GB/s
36 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
9.0a
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
1.5 (2.1)
4.6
Shader Model
-
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131