GeForce FX 5500 and Radeon X1550 AGP - video card comparison

GeForce FX 5500

Radeon X1550 AGP

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

Ultra-Threaded SE

GPU code name

NV34 B1

RV505

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2004

2007

Interface

AGP 8x

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Core clock speed

270 MHz

600 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

45 million

107 million

Power consumption (TDP)

-

27 Watt

Texture fill rate

1.080

2.400

Memory type

DDR

DDR2

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

256 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

332 MHz

660 MBps

Memory bandwidth

5.312 GB/s

5.28 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

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

DirectX

9.0a

9.0c (9_3)

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

1.5 (2.1)

2.1

Shader Model

-

3.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A