GeForce FX 5800 Ultra: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce FX 5800 Ultra sales 6 March 2003 at a recommended price of $399. 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 GDDR2 memory clocked at 0.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 16 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.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce FX 5800 Ultra: 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 (22 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

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

Core clock speed500 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors125 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology130 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Texture fill rate4.000of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs4of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs8of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce FX 5800 Ultra 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 Ultra: 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 typeGDDR2
Maximum RAM amount128 MBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed500 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth16 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce FX 5800 Ultra. 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 5800 Ultra, 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 5800 Ultra. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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