GeForce FX 5900 and Radeon X1950 PRO AGP - video card comparison
GeForce FX 5900
Radeon X1950 PRO AGP
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name
NV35
RV570
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2003
October 2006
Interface
AGP 8x
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x Molex
2x Molex
Core clock speed
400 MHz
575 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
135 million
330 million
Power consumption (TDP)
-
66 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.200
6.900
Memory type
DDR
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
850 MHz
1380 MHz
Memory bandwidth
27.2 GB/s
44.16 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0a
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
1.5 (2.1)
2.0
Shader Model
-
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A