Radeon 9000 PRO and GeForce FX 5600 XT - video card comparison

Radeon 9000 PRO

GeForce FX 5600 XT

Architecture

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

Rankine (2003−2005)

GPU code name

RV250

NV31

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

July 2002

March 2003

Interface

AGP 4x

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Core clock speed

275 MHz

235 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

36 million

80 million

Power consumption (TDP)

28 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

1.100

0.94

Memory type

DDR

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

128 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

550 MHz

400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

8.8 GB/s

6.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

DirectX

8.1

9.0a

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

1.4

1.5 (2.1)

Vulkan

N/A

N/A