GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and Radeon X850 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce FX 5950 Ultra vs Radeon X850 XT
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
61
Radeon X850 XT
83
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
Radeon X850 XT
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code name
NV38
R480
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2003
December 2004
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x Molex
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
475 MHz
520 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
135 million
160 million
Power consumption (TDP)
74 Watt
69 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.800
8.320
Memory type
DDR
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
950 MHz
1080 MHz
Memory bandwidth
30.4 GB/s
34.56 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 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