ATI Radeon 9600 SE vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV350 NV35
GPU variant RV350 SE FX 5900
Architecture Rage 8 Rankine
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 130 nm 130 nm
Number of transistors 60 million 135 million
Die size 76 mm² 207 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 1st, 2003 May 12th, 2003
Generation Radeon R300 GeForce FX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface AGP 8x AGP 8x
Reviews 14 in our database 11 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R200 GeForce 4 Ti
Successor Radeon R400 AGP GeForce 6 AGP
Launch price 399 USD

Clocks

GPU clock 325 MHz 400 MHz
Memory clock 200 MHz 400 Mbps effective 425 MHz 850 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 64 MB 128 MB
Memory type DDR DDR
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 3.200 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 1.300 GPixel/s 1.600 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 162.5 MVertices/s 300.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 1.300 GTexel/s 3.200 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP unknown 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 A175
Length 218 mm 8.6 inches

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0 (9_0) 9.0a
OpenGL 2.0 1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL
Vulkan
Pixel shader 2.0 2.0a
Vertex shader 2.0 2.0a

Other Features

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