
GeForce FX 5700 and GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce FX 5700
GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
NV36
G96C
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2003
May 2010
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
425 MHz
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
89.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
82 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
32
Power consumption (TDP)
25 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
1.700
8.800
Memory type
DDR
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0a
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
1.5 (2.1)
3.3
Shader Model
-
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A