GeForce FX 5500 and Radeon R7 Graphics - video card comparison

GeForce FX 5500

Radeon R7 Graphics

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

NV34 B1

Spectre

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2004

January 2014

Interface

AGP 8x

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

980 MHz

Core clock speed

270 MHz

686 MHz

Floating-point performance

526.8 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

45 million

2,410 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

1.080

31.36

Memory type

DDR

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

System Shared

Memory bus width

128 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

332 MHz

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

5.312 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

No outputs

DirectX

9.0a

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

1.5 (2.1)

4.6

Shader Model

6.0

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131