Nvidia GeForce FX series

The GeForce FX series is a series of desktop - graphics chip company Nvidia and successor to the GeForce 4 series . It was launched in 2003 and 2004. For marketing reasons, Nvidia did without the "5" in the name of the GeForce FX series. The term “FX” was then also used for the CineFX architecture.

Graphics processors

Different graphics processors are used within the GeForce FX series, which differ in terms of their manufacturing technology, interface and graphics pipeline configuration. All graphics processors of the GeForce FX series have a native AGP interface . NV37 and NV39 were marketing names for NV34 and NV36 , respectively, sold together with a PCIe bridge chip.

Graphics chip	production			Render pipelines			API support		Bus interface stelle
	production process	transis- interfere	The surface	Pipes × TMU × VPU	Pixel shader	vertex shader	DirectX	OpenGL
NV30	130 nm	125 million	200 mm²	4 × 8 × 2	2.0a	2.0a	9.0a	1.5	AGP 8x
NV31		080 million	135 mm²	4 × 4 × 2
NV34 / B	150/140 nm	045 million	091 mm²	4 × 4 × 2
NV35	130 nm	135 million	207 mm²	4 × 8 × 3
NV36		082 million	125 mm²	4 × 4 × 3
NV38		135 million	207 mm²	4 × 8 × 3

Naming

MS GeForce FX 5500

ASUS GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

With the GeForce FX series, Nvidia is for the first time using a four-digit number to completely differentiate between low-cost, mainstream and high-end, similar to its competitor ATI in the Radeon family . Letter abbreviations are used to diversify within these market segments.

In the later PCI Express variants , the abbreviation FX was replaced by PCX to highlight the difference.

division

• 52xx / 55xx: low-cost
• 56xx / 57xx: mainstream
• 58xx / 59xx: high-end

Letter abbreviations

• LE - entry-level version, the weakest model in a segment
• XT - entry-level version, the weakest * model in a segment
• EP - more powerful than LE or XT
• [no suffix] - the "normal" chip
• Ultra - most powerful model
• VE - OEM product

Note *: The GeForce FX 5900 ZT was an even weaker FX 5900 XT card released by Nvidia.

Model data

model	Official launch	Graphics processor (GPU)			Graphics memory
		Type	Clock rate (MHz)	Fill rate ( MT / s)	Size ( MB )	Clock rate (MHz)	Type	Storage interface	Bandwidth ( GB / s)
GeForce FX 5100	March 6, 2003	NV34	200	800	64	166	GDR	64 bit	2.7
GeForce FX 5200 LE	March 17, 2003	NV34	250	1000	128	166	GDR	64 bit	2.7
GeForce FX 5200	March 6, 2003	NV34	250	1000	64 128 256	200	GDR	64 bit	3.2
								128 bit	6.4
GeForce FX 5200 Ultra	March 6, 2003	NV34	325	1300	128 256	325	GDR	128 bit	10.4
GeForce PCX 5300	Feb 17, 2004	NV34	325	1300	128	325	GDR	128 bit	10.4
GeForce FX 5500	March 17, 2004	NV34	230	920	128 256	100	GDR	128 bit	3.2
GeForce FX 5600 XT	March 17, 2003	NV31	235	940	128 256	200	GDR	128 bit	6.4
GeForce FX 5600	March 6, 2003	NV31	325	1300	128 256	275	GDR	128 bit	8.8
GeForce FX 5600 Ultra	March 17, 2003	NV31	350	1400	128 256	350	GDR	128 bit	11.2
GeForce FX 5700 LE	March 1, 2004	NV36	250	1000	128 256	200	GDR	64 bit	3.2
GeForce FX 5700 EP	Sep 1 2004	NV36	425	1700	128	200	GDR	64 bit	3.2
GeForce FX 5700 VE	Sep 1 2004	NV36	425	1700	128	275	GDR	128 bit	8.8
GeForce FX 5700	Oct 23, 2003	NV36	425	1700	128 256	250	GDR	128 bit	8.0
GeForce FX 5700 Ultra	Oct 23, 2003	NV36	475	1900	128	450	GDDR2	128 bit	14.4
GeForce FX 5700 Ultra rev. 2	March 15, 2004	NV36	475	1900	256	475	GDDR3	128 bit	15.2
GeForce PCX 5750	Feb 17, 2004	NV36	425	1700	128 256	275	GDR	128 bit	8.8
GeForce FX 5800	March 6, 2003	NV30	400	3200	128	400	GDDR2	128 bit	12.8
GeForce FX 5800 Ultra	March 6, 2003	NV30	500	4000	128	500	GDDR2	128 bit	16.0
GeForce FX 5900 ZT	May 12, 2003	NV35	325	2600	128	350	GDR	256 bit	22.4
GeForce PCX 5900	March 17, 2003	NV35	350	2800	128	275	GDR	256 bit	17.6
GeForce FX 5900 XT	May 12, 2003	NV35	400	3200	128 256	350	GDR	256 bit	22.4
GeForce FX 5900	May 12, 2003	NV35	400	3200	128 256	425	GDR	256 bit	27.2
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra	Oct 23, 2003	NV35	450	3600	256	425	GDR	256 bit	27.2
GeForce PCX 5950	Feb 17, 2004	NV38	475	3800	256	475	GDDR3	256 bit	30.4
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra	Oct 23, 2003	NV38	475	3800	256	475	GDR	256 bit	30.4

Note:

• The specified clock rates are those recommended or specified by Nvidia. However, the final determination of the clock rates is in the hands of the respective graphics card manufacturer. It is therefore entirely possible that there are or will be graphics card models that have different clock rates.
• Source: GPU Specs Database at TechPowerUp

See also

• List of Nvidia graphics processors
• ATI Radeon 9000 series