GeForce FX 5500: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce FX 5500 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.02% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce FX 5500 sales 17 March 2004 at a recommended price of $36.99. This is a Rankine architecture desktop card based on 150 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 64 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.17 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 5.312 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 8x interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 152 mm.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce FX 5500: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1546
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameNV34 B1
Market segmentDesktop
Release date17 March 2004 (21 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$36.99 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

GeForce FX 5500's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce FX 5500's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed270 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors45 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology150 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Texture fill rate1.080of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs4of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs4of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce FX 5500 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfaceAGP 8x
Length152 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce FX 5500: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeDDR
Maximum RAM amount64 MBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed166 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth5.312 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce FX 5500. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API and SDK support

APIs supported by GeForce FX 5500, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX9.0a
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce FX 5500. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

FX 5500
0.02

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

FX 5500 8
Samples: 178

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce FX 5500 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

GeForce FX 5500's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce FX 5500 is Radeon IGP 320, which is slower by 50% and lower by 28 positions in our ranking.

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