The GeForce FX 5950 Ultra was a high-end graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on October 23rd, 2003. Built on the 130 nm process, and based on the NV38 graphics processor, in its FX 5950 Ultra variant, the card supports DirectX 9.0a. Since GeForce FX 5950 Ultra does not support DirectX 11 or DirectX 12, it might not be able to run all the latest games. The NV38 graphics processor is an average sized chip with a die area of 207 mm² and 135 million transistors. It features 4 pixel shaders and 3 vertex shaders, 8 texture mapping units, and 4 ROPs. Due to the lack of unified shaders you will not be able to run recent games at all (which require unified shader/DX10+ support). NVIDIA has paired 256 MB DDR memory with the GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, which are connected using a 256-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 475 MHz, memory is running at 475 MHz.
Being a dual-slot card, the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra draws power from 1x Molex power connector, with power draw rated at 74 W maximum. Display outputs include: 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video. GeForce FX 5950 Ultra is connected to the rest of the system using an AGP 8x interface. The card measures 229 mm in length, 111 mm in width, and features a dual-slot cooling solution. Its price at launch was 499 US Dollars.