and - video card comparison
Architecture
Celsius (1999−2005)
Fahrenheit (1998−2000)
GPU code name
NV18 A2
NV5 B6
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2002
March 1999
Interface
AGP 8x
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
275 MHz
100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
250 nm
Number of transistors
29 million
15 million
Texture fill rate
1.100
0.2
Memory type
DDR
SDR
Maximum RAM amount
32 MB
16 MB
Memory bus width
32 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
133 MHz
Memory bandwidth
2 GB/s
1.064 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x VGA
DirectX
8.0
6.0
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
1.3
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
N/A