Quadro FX 5800: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Quadro FX 5800 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 2.74% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

NVIDIA started Quadro FX 5800 sales 11 November 2008 at a recommended price of $3,499. This is a Tesla 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 4 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 512 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 102.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 189 Watt.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking802
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.02
Power efficiency1.17of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameGT200B
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date11 November 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$3,499 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

Performance to price scatter graph

Detailed specifications

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores240of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed610 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors1,400 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology55 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)189 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate48.80of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power0.6221 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs32of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs80of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L2 Cache256 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro 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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length267 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro 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 typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width512 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed800 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth102.4 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

API and SDK support

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.0
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA1.3

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro FX 5800. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

FX 5800
2.74

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

FX 5800 Samples: 141 1213

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro FX 5800 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

Quadro FX 5800's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


Tesla M2070-Q 107.66
FirePro V5900 101.82
Quadro FX 5800 100
GRID K340 99.64
NVS 810 98.18

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro FX 5800 is FirePro V5900, which is faster by 2% and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Quadro FX 5800:

FirePro V5800 116.79
FirePro V5900 101.82
Quadro FX 5800 100

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