GeForce FX 5900 Ultra and Radeon 9800 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce FX 5900 Ultra vs Radeon 9800 XT
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
42
Radeon 9800 XT
58
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
Radeon 9800 XT
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code name
NV35
R360
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2003
October 2003
Interface
AGP 8x
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x Molex
1x Molex
Core clock speed
450 MHz
412 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
135 million
117 million
Power consumption (TDP)
59 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.600
3.296
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
850 MHz
730 MHz
Memory bandwidth
27.2 GB/s
23.36 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0a
9.0
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
1.5 (2.1)
2.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A