NVIDIA started GeForce FX 5600 sales 6 March 2003. This is a Rankine architecture desktop card based on 130 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 128 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 8 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 8x interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 37 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce FX 5600: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	1483
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Power efficiency	0.06	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name	NV31
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	6 March 2003 (21 year ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce FX 5600's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce FX 5600's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	325 MHz	of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	80 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	37 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	1.300	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs	4	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	4	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce FX 5600 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
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce FX 5600: 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 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	250 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	8 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce FX 5600. 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 5600, 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 5600. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

FX 5600 0.03

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 5600 12

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce FX 5600 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.