GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and Madison - video card comparison
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
Madison
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
NV38
Madison
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2003
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Interface
AGP 8x
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Supplementary power connectors
1x Molex
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Core clock speed
475 MHz
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Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
135 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
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400
Power consumption (TDP)
74 Watt
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Texture fill rate
3.800
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Memory type
DDR
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Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
950 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
30.4 GB/s
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Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
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DirectX
9.0a
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
-
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A