ATI Radeon E4690 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV730 NV35
GPU variant RV730 XT E4690 (215-0729055) FX 5900
Architecture TeraScale Rankine
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 55 nm 130 nm
Number of transistors 514 million 135 million
Die size 146 mm² 207 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Jun 1st, 2009
Generation Embedded (4000)
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16

Clocks

GPU clock 600 MHz 400 MHz
Memory clock 700 MHz 1400 Mbps effective 425 MHz 850 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 128 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 22.40 GB/s 27.20 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 320
TMUs 32 8
ROPs 8 4
Compute units 4
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 128 KB
Pixel shaders 4
Vertex shaders 3

Performance

Pixel rate 4.800 GPixel/s 1.600 GPixel/s
Texture rate 19.20 GTexel/s 3.200 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 384.0 GFLOPS
Vertex rate 300.0 MVertices/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 175 mm 6.9 inches 218 mm 8.6 inches
TDP 30 W unknown
Outputs 2x DVI 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Suggested PSU 200 W
Power connectors 1x Molex

API Support & Features

DirectX 10.1 (10_1) 9.0a
OpenGL 3.3 1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 4.1
Pixel shader 2.0a
Vertex shader 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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