GeForce FX 5700 Ultra: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce FX 5700 Ultra sales 23 October 2003 at a recommended price of $199 . 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 GDDR2 memory clocked at 0.91 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 14.5 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 8x interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 229 mm. 1x Molex power connector is required, and power consumption is at 46 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce FX 5700 Ultra: 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	NV36
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	23 October 2003 (20 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$199	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

GeForce FX 5700 Ultra's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce FX 5700 Ultra's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	475 MHz	of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	82 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	of 4 nm (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)	46 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	1.900	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce FX 5700 Ultra 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	229 mm
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce FX 5700 Ultra: 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	GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	906 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	14.5 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce FX 5700 Ultra. 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 5700 Ultra, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	9.0a
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce FX 5700 Ultra. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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