NVIDIA GeForce3 vs ATI Radeon X550
What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce3 and ATI Radeon X550. Find out which graphics card has better performance.
Graphics Processor (GPU)
| NV20 | GPU Name | RV370 |
| NV20 A5 | Model number | RV370 LE (215S8DAKA23F) |
| Kelvin | Architecture | Rage 9 |
| TSMC | Foundry | TSMC |
| 150 nm | Process Size | 110 nm |
| 57 million | Transistors | 107 million |
| 128 mm² | Die Size | 74 mm² |
Graphics Card
| Feb 27th, 2001 | Release Date | Jul 1st, 2005 |
| GeForce 3 | Family | Radeon R300 (X550) |
| End-of-life | Production | End-of-life |
| GeForce 2 | Predecessor | Radeon R200 |
| AGP 4x | Bus Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
Memory
| 64 MB | Memory Size | 128 MB |
| DDR | Memory Type | DDR |
| 128 bit | Memory Bus | 128 bit |
| 7.360 GB/s | Bandwidth | 8.000 GB/s |
Performance
| 800.0 MPixel/s | Pixel fillrate | 1.600 GPixel/s |
| 50.00 MVertices/s | Vertex fillrate | 200.0 MVertices/s |
| 1.600 GTexel/s | Texture fillrate | 1.600 GTexel/s |
Clock Speeds
| 230 MHz 460 Mbps effective | Memory Clock | 250 MHz 500 Mbps effective |
| 200 MHz | GPU Clock | 400 MHz |
Render Config
| 8 | TMUs | 4 |
| 4 | ROPs | 4 |
| 4 | Pixel Shaders | 4 |
| 1 | Vertex Shaders | 2 |
Board Design
| Single-slot | Slot Width | Single-slot |
| unknown | Thermal design power (TDP) | unknown |
| 200 W | Suggested PSU | 200 W |
| 1x VGA 1x DB13W3 | Display Connectors | 1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video |
| None | Power Connectors | None |
API support
| 8.1 | DirectX | 9.0 |
| 1.5 | OpenGL | 2.0 |
| N/A | OpenCL | N/A |
| N/A | Vulkan | N/A |
| 1.1 | Pixel Shader | 2.0 |
| 1.1 | Vertex Shader | 2.0 |