GeForce FX 5800: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce FX 5800 sales 6 March 2003 at a recommended price of $299 . 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 0.4 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via AGP 8x interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 213 mm. 1x Molex power connector is required, and power consumption is at 44 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce FX 5800: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Rankine (2003−2005) | |
| GPU code name | NV30 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 6 March 2003 (21 year ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $299 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce FX 5800's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce FX 5800's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 400 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 125 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 130 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 44 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 3.200 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 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).
| Interface | AGP 8x | |
| Length | 213 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x Molex |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 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 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 | 400 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 12.8 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 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 Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce FX 5800, 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 |
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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