NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 PCI

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Graphics Processor

GPU model NV34B NV18C
GPU variant FX 5500 NPB MX4000
Architecture Rankine Celsius
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 150 nm 150 nm
Number of transistors 45 million 29 million
Die size 91 mm² 65 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Mar 17th, 2004 Dec 14th, 2003
Generation GeForce FX GeForce 4 MX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCI PCI
Predecessor GeForce 4 Ti GeForce 3
Successor GeForce 6 AGP GeForce 4 Ti

Clocks

GPU clock 270 MHz 250 MHz
Memory clock 200 MHz 400 Mbps effective 166 MHz 332 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 128 MB
Memory type DDR DDR
Memory bus width 128 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 6.400 GB/s 2.656 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 4 2
Vertex shaders 2 0
TMUs 4 4
ROPs 4 2

Performance

Pixel rate 1.080 GPixel/s 500.0 MPixel/s
Vertex rate 135.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 1.080 GTexel/s 1.000 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 165 mm 6.5 inches
TDP unknown unknown
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors None None

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0a 7.0
OpenGL 1.5 1.5
OpenCL
Vulkan
Pixel shader 2.0a 1.1
Vertex shader 2.0a 1.1

Other Features

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