Radeon Xpress 1150 vs GeForce FX 5500

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Rankine (2003−2005)	Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code name	NV34 B1	RS482M
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	17 March 2004 (20 years ago)	1 June 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$36.99	no data
Current price	$135 (3.6x MSRP)	no data

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	no data	6
Core clock speed	270 MHz	2 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	400 MHz
Number of transistors	45 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	110 nm
Texture fill rate	1.080	0.8

Form factor & compatibility

Information on GeForce FX 5500 and Radeon Xpress 1150 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface	AGP 8x	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	152 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	DDR	shared Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	System Shared
Memory bus width	128 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	332 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	5.312 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	no data	+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

No outputs

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	9.0a	9.0
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	2.0
OpenCL	N/A	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	17 March 2004	1 June 2006
Chip lithography	150 nm	110 nm

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