NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

  • Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 59 Watt vs 74 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 59 Watt vs 74 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

  • Around 6% higher core clock speed: 475 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • Around 6% higher texture fill rate: 1.9 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
  • Around 12% higher memory clock speed: 950 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • Around 44% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 59 vs 41
  • Around 61% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 274 vs 170
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 475 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 1.9 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed 950 MHz vs 850 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 59 vs 41
PassMark - G2D Mark 274 vs 170

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
41
59
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
170
274
Name NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark 41 59
PassMark - G2D Mark 170 274

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

Essentials

Architecture Rankine Rankine
Code name NV35 NV38 A1
Launch date 23 October 2003 23 October 2003
Launch price (MSRP) $499 $499
Place in performance rating 1041 637
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 450 MHz 475 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm 130 nm
Texture fill rate 1.8 GTexel / s 1.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 59 Watt 74 Watt
Transistor count 135 million 135 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
Length 218 mm 229 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x Molex 1x Molex

API support

DirectX 9.0a 9.0a
OpenGL 1.5 (2.1) 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 27.2 GB / s 30.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 850 MHz 950 MHz
Memory type DDR DDR