
GeForce FX 5900 and GeForce4 MX + nForce2 - video card comparison
GeForce FX 5900
GeForce4 MX + nForce2
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name
NV35
Crush17
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2003
October 2002
Interface
AGP 8x
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
1x Molex
-
Core clock speed
400 MHz
200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
135 million
29 million
Texture fill rate
3.200
0.8
Memory type
DDR
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
256 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
850 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
27.2 GB/s
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Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
9.0a
8.0
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
1.5 (2.1)
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
N/A