GeForce PCX 5950: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce PCX 5950 sales 17 February 2004. 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. 256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.43 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 27.2 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 57 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce PCX 5950: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameNV38
Market segmentDesktop
Release date17 February 2004 (21 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce PCX 5950's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce PCX 5950's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed475 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors135 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology130 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)57 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate3.800of 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 PCX 5950 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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce PCX 5950: 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 typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed425 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth27.2 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce PCX 5950. 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 PCX 5950, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX9.0a
OpenGL2.1of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce PCX 5950. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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