GeForce FX 5900 Ultra and Radeon 9600 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce FX 5900 Ultra vs Radeon 9600
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
42
Radeon 9600
36
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
Radeon 9600
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
NV35
RV350
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2003
October 2003
Interface
AGP 8x
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x Molex
None
Core clock speed
450 MHz
324 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
135 million
60 million
Power consumption (TDP)
59 Watt
12 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.600
1.296
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
850 MHz
378 MHz
Memory bandwidth
27.2 GB/s
6.048 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0a
9.0 (9_0)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
1.5 (2.1)
2.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A