NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce FX 5600 sales 6 March 2003. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Rankine architecture and made with 130 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 128 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 8 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via AGP 8x interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 37 Watt.

We have no data on GeForce FX 5600 benchmark results.

General info

Some basic facts about GeForce FX 5600: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameNV31
Market segmentDesktop
Release date6 March 2003 (21 year old)
Current price$124 of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

GeForce FX 5600's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce FX 5600's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed325 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors80 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology130 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)37 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate1.300of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce FX 5600 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
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce FX 5600: 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 amount128 MBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed500 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth8 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce FX 5600. 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 support

APIs supported by GeForce FX 5600, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX9.0a
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce FX 5600. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. 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.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

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Recommended processors

These processors are most commonly used with GeForce FX 5600 according to our statistics.

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