Radeon 9550 and GeForce FX 5500 PCI - video card comparison
Radeon 9550
GeForce FX 5500 PCI
Architecture
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
RV350
NV34 B1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2003
March 2004
Interface
AGP 8x
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
250 MHz
270 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
60 million
45 million
Texture fill rate
1.000
1.080
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
400 MHz
400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
6.4 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0 (9_0)
9.0a
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.0
1.5 (2.1)
Vulkan
N/A
N/A