Radeon HD 8550 OEM and GeForce FX 5900 ZT - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8550 OEM
GeForce FX 5900 ZT
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
Turks
NV35
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
May 2003
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x Molex
Core clock speed
650 MHz
325 MHz
Floating-point performance
624.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
716 million
135 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
-
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
15.60
2.600
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
9.0a
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A