ATI Mobility Radeon X300 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Table of Contents

Graphics Processor

GPU model M22 NV35
Architecture Rage 9 Rankine
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 110 nm 130 nm
Number of transistors 107 million 135 million
Die size 74 mm² 207 mm²
GPU variant FX 5900

Mobile graphics

Release date Nov 1st, 2005
Generation M2x (Mobility X1)
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 2 in our database
Predecessor M1x
Successor M5x

Clocks

GPU clock 350 MHz 400 MHz
Memory clock 250 MHz 500 Mbps effective 425 MHz 850 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 128 MB 128 MB
Memory type DDR DDR
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 4.000 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 1.400 GPixel/s 1.600 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 175.0 MVertices/s 300.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 1.400 GTexel/s 3.200 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

TDP unknown unknown
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Slot width Single-slot
Length 218 mm 8.6 inches
Suggested PSU 200 W
Power connectors 1x Molex

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0b 9.0a
OpenGL 2.0 1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL
Vulkan
Pixel shader 2.0b 2.0a
Vertex shader 2.0b 2.0a

Other Features

Graphics Card

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

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