The GeForce FX 5800 was a performance-segment graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on March 6th, 2003. Built on the 130 nm process, and based on the NV30 graphics processor, the card supports DirectX 9.0a. Since GeForce FX 5800 does not support DirectX 11 or DirectX 12, it might not be able to run all the latest games. The NV30 graphics processor is an average sized chip with a die area of 199 mm² and 125 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 128 MB GDDR2 memory with the GeForce FX 5800, which are connected using a 128-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 400 MHz, memory is running at 400 MHz.
Being a dual-slot card, the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 draws power from 1x Molex power connector, with power draw rated at 44 W maximum. Display outputs include: 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video. GeForce FX 5800 is connected to the rest of the system using an AGP 8x interface. The card measures 213 mm in length, and features a dual-slot cooling solution. Its price at launch was 299 US Dollars.