GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP - video card comparison
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code name
NV38
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
475 MHz
540 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
135 million
160 million
Power consumption (TDP)
74 Watt
67 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.800
8.640
Memory type
DDR
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
950 MHz
1180 MHz
Memory bandwidth
30.4 GB/s
37.76 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
2.1
2.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A