Radeon 9700 and GeForce FX 5800 - video card comparison
Radeon 9700
GeForce FX 5800
Architecture
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
R300
NV30
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2002
March 2003
Interface
AGP 8x
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
Floppy
1x Molex
Core clock speed
275 MHz
400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
110 million
125 million
Power consumption (TDP)
37 Watt
44 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.200
3.200
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
540 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
17.28 GB/s
12.8 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