NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 vs ATI Radeon X300 LE

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 and ATI Radeon X300 LE. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

GeForce FX 5600

GeForce FX 5600

Radeon X300 LE

Graphics Processor (GPU)

NV31	GPU Name	RV370
5600	Model number	RV370 LE (215S8DAKA23F)
Rankine	Architecture	Rage 9
TSMC	Foundry	TSMC
130 nm	Process Size	110 nm
80 million	Transistors	107 million
121 mm²	Die Size	74 mm²

Graphics Card

Mar 6th, 2003	Release Date	Sep 1st, 2004
GeForce FX (5600)	Family	Radeon R300 (X300)
End-of-life	Production	End-of-life
GeForce 4 Ti	Predecessor	Radeon R200
AGP 8x	Bus Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16

Memory

128 MB	Memory Size	64 MB
DDR	Memory Type	DDR
128 bit	Memory Bus	128 bit
8.000 GB/s	Bandwidth	6.400 GB/s

Performance

1.300 GPixel/s	Pixel fillrate	1.300 GPixel/s
162.5 MVertices/s	Vertex fillrate	162.5 MVertices/s
1.300 GTexel/s	Texture fillrate	1.300 GTexel/s

Clock Speeds

250 MHz 500 Mbps effective	Memory Clock	200 MHz 400 Mbps effective
325 MHz	GPU Clock	325 MHz

Render Config

4	TMUs	4
4	ROPs	4
4	Pixel Shaders	4
2	Vertex Shaders	2

Board Design

Single-slot	Slot Width	Single-slot
37 W	Thermal design power (TDP)	unknown
200 W	Suggested PSU	200 W
1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video	Display Connectors	1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

API support

9.0a	DirectX	9.0
2.0	OpenGL	2.0
N/A	OpenCL	N/A
N/A	Vulkan	N/A
2.0a	Pixel Shader	2.0
2.0a	Vertex Shader	2.0