GeForce FX 5900: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce FX 5900 sales 12 May 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 DDR memory clocked at 0.85 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 27.2 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via AGP 8x interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 218 mm. 1x Molex power connector is required.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce FX 5900: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name	NV35
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	12 May 2003 (20 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$399
Current price	$315 (0.8x MSRP)	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Detailed specifications

GeForce FX 5900's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce FX 5900's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	400 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	135 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Texture fill rate	3.200	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce FX 5900 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).

Interface	AGP 8x
Length	218 mm
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce FX 5900: 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 type	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	850 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	27.2 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce FX 5900. 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 Connectors

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

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce FX 5900, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	9.0a
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce FX 5900. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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