GeForce FX 5500 and Radeon X300 SE - video card comparison
GeForce FX 5500
Radeon X300 SE
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code name
NV34 B1
RV370
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2004
September 2004
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
270 MHz
325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
45 million
107 million
Power consumption (TDP)
-
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
1.080
1.300
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
332 MHz
400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
5.312 GB/s
3.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
9.0a
9.0
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
1.5 (2.1)
2.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A