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NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300

The NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 is a graphics card released on February 17, 2004 using a 150 nm process. It has 128 MB of DDR memory on a 128-bit bus, 6.4 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 250 MHz and a 21 W board power rating. It scores 6 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 9.0b and OpenGL 1.5.

NV37150 nm

7/10 key specs recorded · 25 facts

Depth: 31 recorded fields

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 7 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

n/a

Memory

128 MB

DDR · 128-bit

Boost clock

n/a

250 MHz base

Board power

21 W

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 scores 6 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 4.2% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,734), measured across 3 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 197.

PassMark G3D Mark

Rank #2,734
Faster than 4.2% of 2,658 GPUs
3 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

As stated by PassMark

Category Desktop

Bus interface PCI-E x16

Max memory 128 MB

Core clock 250 MHz

Memory clock 400 MHz

DirectX 9.0b

OpenGL 1.5

First benchmarked 2009-05-05

Samples 3

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 states the PCI-E x16 interface, up to 128 MB of memory, a core clock of 250 MHz, DirectX 9.0b and OpenGL 1.5, first benchmarked on 2009-05-05. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture Not recorded

Codename NV37

Chip Not recorded

Process node 150 nm

Transistors 45 M

Die size 91 mm²

The NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 uses the NV37 graphics processor, is manufactured on a 150 nm process, contains 45 million transistors and has a die size of 91 mm².

Shader configuration

Shading units Not recorded

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) Not recorded

Render output units (ROPs) 4

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 4 render output units.

The NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300.

Clock speeds

Base clock 250 MHz

Boost clock Not recorded

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 runs at a base clock of 250 MHz.

Memory

Size 128 MB

Type DDR

Bus width 128-bit

Bandwidth 6.4 GB/s

The NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 is equipped with 128 MB of DDR memory, uses a 128-bit memory bus and delivers 6.4 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Board and power

The NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 has a board power rating of 21 W and it connects over PCI-E x16.

Board power (TDP) 21 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCI-E x16

Market

Launched February 17, 2004

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Desktop

Series GeForce 5 Series

The NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 was released on February 17, 2004.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 6

PassMark G2D 197

Rank #2,734

Samples 3

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 supports DirectX 9.0b and OpenGL 1.5.

DirectX 9.0b (stated by PassMark)

OpenGL 1.5 (stated by PassMark)

Feex has no recorded CUDA compute capability for the NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300.