GeForce FX 5600 and GeForce3 Ti500 - video card comparison

GeForce FX 5600

GeForce3 Ti500

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

Kelvin (2001−2003)

GPU code name

NV31

NV20 A5

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2003

October 2001

Interface

AGP 8x

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Core clock speed

325 MHz

240 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

80 million

57 million

Power consumption (TDP)

37 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

1.300

1.920

Memory type

DDR

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

64 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

500 MHz

500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

8 GB/s

8 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

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

DirectX

9.0a

8.0

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

1.5 (2.1)

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

N/A