NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 PCI vs ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 PCI and ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 PCI

ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 PCI

Around 48% higher core clock speed: 270 MHz vs 183 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 140 nm vs 180 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 32 MB
Around 9% higher memory clock speed: 400 MHz vs 366 MHz

Core clock speed	270 MHz vs 183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	140 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	400 MHz vs 366 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition

508.3x more texture fill rate: 549 MTexel / s vs 1.08 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	549 MTexel / s vs 1.08 GTexel / s

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 PCI	ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	Rage 6
Code name	NV34 B1	RV100
Launch date	17 March 2004	14 March 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	270 MHz	183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	140 nm	180 nm
Texture fill rate	1.08 GTexel / s	549 MTexel / s
Transistor count	45 million	30 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		23 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	AGP 4x
Length	165 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	9.0a	7.0
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	2.928 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	366 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR