GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and Radeon 9700 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce FX 5950 Ultra vs Radeon 9700
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
61
Radeon 9700
55
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
Radeon 9700
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
NV38
R300
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2003
July 2002
Interface
AGP 8x
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x Molex
Floppy
Core clock speed
475 MHz
275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
135 million
110 million
Power consumption (TDP)
74 Watt
37 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.800
2.200
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
950 MHz
540 MHz
Memory bandwidth
30.4 GB/s
17.28 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0a
9.0 (9_0)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A