Radeon X800 XT and GeForce FX 5900 XT - video card comparison
Radeon X800 XT
GeForce FX 5900 XT
Architecture
R400 (2004−2008)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
R423
NV35
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2004
May 2003
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x Molex
Core clock speed
500 MHz
400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
160 million
135 million
Power consumption (TDP)
54 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.000
3.200
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0b (9_2)
9.0a
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.0
1.5 (2.1)
Vulkan
N/A
N/A