NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce FX 5900 XT sales 12 May 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 0.7 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 22.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via AGP 8x interface. 1x Molex power connector is required, and power consumption is at 35 Watt.

We have no data on GeForce FX 5900 XT benchmark results.

General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameNV35
Market segmentDesktop
Release date12 May 2003 (20 years old)
Current price$315 of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

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

Core clock speed400 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors135 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology130 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate3.200of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce FX 5900 XT 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 connectors1x Molex

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce FX 5900 XT: 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 width256 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed700 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce FX 5900 XT. 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 5900 XT, 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 5900 XT. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


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