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nVidia GeForce FX 5800 Ultra
At A Glance
Manufacturer:nVidia
Series:GeForce FX
GPU:NV30
Release Date:2003-01-27
Interface:AGP 8X
Core Clock:500 MHz
Memory Clock:500 MHz (1000 DDR)
Memory Bandwidth:16 GB/sec
Shader Operations:2000 MOperations/sec
Pixel Fill Rate:2000 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate:4000 MTexels/sec
Vertex Operations:? MVertices/sec
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Overall
6.9 (12 votes)

Performance
7.2 (13 votes)

Price
7 (8 votes)

Features
8.8 (8 votes)

Overclockability
9 (7 votes)

Silence
2.3 (24 votes)
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Camera Albatron FX5800U 500 500? 128 bit? MB DVI-I / VGA y - - - y
Camera ELSA Gladiac FX 930 500? 500? 128 bit 128 MB DVI-I / VGA y - - - y
Camera MSI FX5800 Ultra-TD8X 500? 500? 128 bit? 128 MB DVI-I / VGA y - - - y
Camera ASUS V9900ULTRA/TD/128M 500 500 128 bit 128 MB DVI-I / VGA y - - - y
Camera XFX GeForce FX 5800 Ultra 500? 500? 128 bit 128 MB DVI-I / VGA y - - - y
Camera BFG Asylum FX 5800 Ultra 500 500? 128 bit? 128 MB DVI-I / VGA y - - - -
Camera LeadTek WinFast A300 Ultra TD MyVIVO 500? 500 128 bit? 128 MB DVI-I / VGA y - - - y
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5 Comments
Tuesday, December 20, 2005 3:19:23 AM
Mike
GPUReview Founder
The infamous FX 5800 Ultra. In a desperate attempt to keep up with ATi's very impressive Radeon 9700 Pro, nVidia clocked this card to an as-yet unseen 500Mhz on both the core and the memory. The cooling solution was so absurdly loud the card was nicknamed the "dust-buster". The achilles heel of this card was its 128 bit memory bus (the 9700 Pro used 256 bit). The card had an extremely short lifespan and was replaced by the 5900 Ultra before it became available in any quantity.
Thursday, July 06, 2006 11:30:11 PM
Mike
GPUReview Founder
I found one of these laying around my school and decided to give it a whirl to see how loud the fan really is. I held out for 10 minutes before it drove me nuts. Damn that thing is loud.
Monday, January 29, 2007 11:35:42 PM
anonymous
guest
Not to mention its HORRIBLE DX9 performance, which improved notoriously on NV35, but still failed to the 9800XT.
Friday, February 15, 2008 2:38:18 PM
anonymous
guest
The leaf blower , end of story
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 7:56:09 PM

I swear, this card was just a rehashed rush-job of the GF4. What a pile of trash.
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