The MSI GeForce FX 5500-TD256 is also known as MS-8911. It's based on nVidia's GeForce FX 5500 GPU. Both the GeForce FX 5200 and 5500 are based on the NV34 so you do the math in terms of performance .

As companies can configure their card like they want it (in a certain way at least), a lot choose for a 64-bit memory bus on these cards. Just like the GeForce FX 5200 the first benchmarks when the card was released we're often run with cards that featured a 128-bit memory bus. The actual products mostly sold with a 64-bit memory bus. Both in theoretical and practical terms this means 50% performance difference! > Read more