ATI Radeon 8500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R250 NV34
Architecture Rage 7 Rankine
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 150 nm 150 nm
Number of transistors 60 million 45 million
Die size 68 mm² 124 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Never Released Mar 6th, 2003
Generation Radeon R200 GeForce FX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface AGP 4x AGP 8x
Predecessor Radeon R100 GeForce 4 Ti
Successor Radeon R300 GeForce 6 AGP

Clocks

GPU clock 300 MHz 200 MHz
Memory clock 300 MHz 600 Mbps effective 166 MHz 332 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 128 MB 64 MB
Memory type DDR DDR
Memory bus width 128 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 9.600 GB/s 2.656 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 4 4
Vertex shaders 2 2
TMUs 8 4
ROPs 4 4

Performance

Pixel rate 1.200 GPixel/s 800.0 MPixel/s
Vertex rate 150.0 MVertices/s 100.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 2.400 GTexel/s 800.0 MTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 25 W unknown
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors None None

API Support & Features

DirectX 8.1 9.0a
OpenGL 1.4 1.5
OpenCL
Vulkan
Pixel shader 1.4 2.0a
Vertex shader 1.1 2.0a

Other Features

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