GeForce FX 5500 and Riva TNT2 M64 - video card comparison

GeForce FX 5500

Riva TNT2 M64

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

Fahrenheit (1998−2000)

GPU code name

NV34 B1

NV5 B6

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2004

October 1999

Interface

AGP 8x

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Core clock speed

270 MHz

125 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

250 nm

Number of transistors

45 million

15 million

Texture fill rate

1.080

0.25

Memory type

DDR

SDR

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

16 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

332 MHz

143 MHz

Memory bandwidth

5.312 GB/s

1.144 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

1x VGA

DirectX

9.0a

6.0

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

1.5 (2.1)

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

N/A