GeForce FX 5500
The GeForce FX 5500 was approximately in the middle between the performance level of the GeForce FX 5200 and GeForce FX 5600. At comparable frequencies (250/400 MHz), the GeForce FX 5200 outperformed the GeForce FX 5500 by almost one and a half times, so the new product from Nvidia was of some interest for economical users.
At frequencies of 270/400 MHz, some internal improvements helped this new product to get a noticeable advantage over the GeForce FX 5200
Specifications NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
| Name | GeForceFX 5500 |
| Core | NV34 |
| Process technology (µm) | 0.14 / 0.15 |
| Transistors (million) | 47 |
| Core frequency | 270 |
| Memory frequency (DDR) | 200 (400) |
| Bus and memory type | DDR-64 / 128bit |
| Bandwidth (Gb/s) | 3.2 / 6.4 |
| Pixel pipelines | 4(2) |
| TMU per conveyor | 12) |
| textures per clock | 4 |
| textures per pass | 16 |
| Vertex conveyors | 1 |
| Pixel Shaders | 2.0 |
| Vertex Shaders | 2.0 |
| Fill Rate (Mpix/s) | 1080 |
| Fill Rate (Mtex/s) | 1080 |
| DirectX | 9.0 |
| Anti-Aliasing (Max) | SS&MS - 4x |
| Anisotropic Filtering (Max) | 8x |
| Memory | 128 / 256 MB |
| Interface | AGP 8x |
| RAMDAC | 2x350 MHz |
This video card was planned to oust the GeForce FX 5200 from its market segment and significantly shake the position of the wretched Radeon 9600 SE