NVIDIA started GeForce PCX 5900 sales 17 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 0.28 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 17.6 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce PCX 5900: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	1460
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name	NV35
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	17 March 2003 (21 year ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce PCX 5900's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce PCX 5900's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	350 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors	135 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Texture fill rate	2.800	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 PCX 5900 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	PCIe 1.0 x16
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce PCX 5900: 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	256 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	275 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	17.6 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce PCX 5900. 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 PCX 5900, 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 PCX 5900. 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.

PCX 5900 0.09

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.

PCX 5900 34

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce PCX 5900 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

GeForce PCX 5900's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.

Radeon 9600 100

Radeon 9550 100

Radeon Xpress 1100 100

GeForce PCX 5900 100

GeForce FX 5900 100

GeForce FX 5700 Ultra 100

GeForce PCX 5750 100

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce PCX 5900 is Radeon Xpress 1100, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.