GeForce FX 5600 and Radeon 7500 LE - video card comparison

GeForce FX 5600

Radeon 7500 LE

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

GPU code name

NV31

RV200

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2003

August 2001

Interface

AGP 8x

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Core clock speed

325 MHz

250 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

80 million

60 million

Power consumption (TDP)

37 Watt

23 Watt

Texture fill rate

1.300

1.500

Memory type

DDR

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

64 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

500 MHz

350 MHz

Memory bandwidth

8 GB/s

5.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

1x VGA, 1x S-Video

DirectX

9.0a

7.0

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

1.5 (2.1)

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

N/A