GeForce FX 5900 Ultra and Radeon X850 XT AGP - video card comparison
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
Radeon X850 XT AGP
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code name
NV35
R481
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2003
February 2005
Interface
AGP 8x
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x Molex
1x Molex
Core clock speed
450 MHz
520 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
135 million
160 million
Power consumption (TDP)
59 Watt
69 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.600
8.320
Memory type
DDR
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
850 MHz
1080 MHz
Memory bandwidth
27.2 GB/s
34.56 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0a
9.0b (9_2)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
1.5 (2.1)
2.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A