NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE vs ATI Radeon 9550

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE and ATI Radeon 9550 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE

ATI Radeon 9550

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 147 vs 145

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 March 2004 vs 1 October 2003
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	147 vs 145

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9550

Around 40% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 35 vs 25

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	35 vs 25

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9550

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

147

145

Name	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE	ATI Radeon 9550
PassMark - G3D Mark	25	35
PassMark - G2D Mark	147	145

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE	ATI Radeon 9550
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	Rage 8
Code name	NV36 A1	RV350
Launch date	1 March 2004	1 October 2003
Place in performance rating	1123	1124
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Transistor count	82 million	76 million
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	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0a	9.0
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.2 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR