ATI Radeon 9600 PRO vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV350 NV31
GPU variant RV350 PRO (215R8JAGA12F) 5600 Ultra
Architecture Rage 8 Rankine
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 130 nm 130 nm
Number of transistors 60 million 80 million
Die size 76 mm² 121 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 1st, 2003 Mar 17th, 2003
Generation Radeon R300 GeForce FX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface AGP 8x AGP 8x
Reviews 14 in our database 2 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R200 GeForce 4 Ti
Successor Radeon R400 AGP GeForce 6 AGP
Launch price 199 USD

Clocks

GPU clock 400 MHz 400 MHz
Memory clock 300 MHz 600 Mbps effective 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 128 MB 128 MB
Memory type DDR DDR
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 9.600 GB/s 12.80 GB/s

Render Configuration

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

Performance

Pixel rate 1.600 GPixel/s 1.600 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 200.0 MVertices/s 300.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 1.600 GTexel/s 1.600 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 18 W unknown
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors None 1x Molex
Board number 852
Length 190 mm 7.5 inches

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0 (9_0) 9.0a
OpenGL 2.0 2.0
OpenCL
Vulkan
Pixel shader 2.0 2.0a
Vertex shader 2.0 2.0a

Other Features

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