GeForce FX 5800: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce FX 5800 sales 6 March 2003 at a recommended price of $299 . 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 0.4 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via AGP 8x interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 213 mm. 1x Molex power connector is required, and power consumption is at 44 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce FX 5800: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameNV30
Market segmentDesktop
Release date6 March 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

GeForce FX 5800's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce FX 5800's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed400 MHzof 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Number of transistors125 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology130 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)44 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate3.200of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs4of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs8of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce FX 5800 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
Length213 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x Molex

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce FX 5800: 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 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed400 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce FX 5800. 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 compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce FX 5800, sometimes including their particular versions.

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

Benchmark performance

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