ATI FireMV 2250 PCIe x1 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV516 NV35
Architecture R500 Rankine
Foundry UMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 80 nm 130 nm
Number of transistors 107 million 135 million
Die size 100 mm² 207 mm²
GPU variant FX 5900

Graphics Card

Release date 2007 May 12th, 2003
Generation FireMV Multi-View GeForce FX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x1 AGP 8x
Launch price 399 USD
Reviews 11 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 4 Ti
Successor GeForce 6 AGP

Clocks

GPU clock 600 MHz 400 MHz
Memory clock 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective 425 MHz 850 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 128 MB
Memory type DDR2 DDR
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 12.80 GB/s 27.20 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 4 4
Vertex shaders 2 3
TMUs 4 8
ROPs 4 4

Performance

Pixel rate 2.400 GPixel/s 1.600 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 300.0 MVertices/s 300.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 2.400 GTexel/s 3.200 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 170 mm 6.7 inches 218 mm 8.6 inches
Width 69 mm 2.7 inches
TDP 32 W unknown
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x S-Video1x DMS-59 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors None 1x Molex
Board number B152-31

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 9.0a
OpenGL 2.1 1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL
Vulkan
Shader model 3.0
Pixel shader 2.0a
Vertex shader 2.0a

Other Features

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