ATI Radeon X1550 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV505 NV38
Architecture R500 Rankine
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 90 nm 130 nm
Number of transistors 107 million 135 million
Die size 100 mm² 207 mm²
GPU variant FX 5950 Ultra

Graphics Card

Release date 2007 Oct 23rd, 2003
Generation Radeon R500 PCIe GeForce FX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 AGP 8x
Reviews 7 in our database 1 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R400 PCIe GeForce 4 Ti
Successor Radeon R600 GeForce 6 AGP
Launch price 499 USD

Clocks

GPU clock 500 MHz 475 MHz
Memory clock 333 MHz 666 Mbps effective 475 MHz 950 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 128 MB 256 MB
Memory type DDR2 DDR
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 5.328 GB/s 30.40 GB/s

Render Configuration

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

Performance

Pixel rate 2.000 GPixel/s 1.900 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 250.0 MVertices/s 356.3 MVertices/s
Texture rate 2.000 GTexel/s 3.800 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Dual-slot
TDP 27 W 74 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 250 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors None 1x Molex
Length 229 mm 9 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches

API Support & Features

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

Other Features

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