NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800
The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 is a workstation graphics card released on November 11, 2008. It has 4 GB of GDDR3 memory and a 189 W board power rating. It scores 1,211 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 10, OpenGL 3.3, OpenCL 1.1 and CUDA compute capability 1.3.
Depth: 29 recorded fields, 1 feature, 2 PassMark workloads
Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 5 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.
Performance
The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 scores 1,211 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 58.1% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #1,284), measured across 143 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 76.
PassMark workload tests
In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 averages DirectX 9 26 fps and DirectX 10 6 fps, across 143 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.
As stated by PassMark
PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 states the PCIe 2.0 x16 interface, up to 4 GB of memory, a core clock of 648 MHz, DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.3, first benchmarked on 2009-04-02. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.
Graphics processor
The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 uses the G200-875-B2 + NVIO2-A2 graphics processor.
Memory
The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 is equipped with 4 GB of GDDR3 memory.
Board and power
The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 has a board power rating of 189 W and it connects over PCIe 2.0 x16.
Market
The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 was released on November 11, 2008.
Benchmarks
Graphics and compute APIs
The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 supports DirectX 10, OpenGL 3.3, OpenCL 1.1 and CUDA compute capability 1.3.
Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800.
Features
The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 has 1 supported feature recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.
Compute and AI
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Supported: CUDA Compute capability 1.3Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.
Not listed (2)
No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.
The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 supports CUDA (Compute capability 1.3) under Compute and AI.
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 have?
The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 has 4 GB of GDDR3 memory.
How much power does the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 use and what power supply does it need?
The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 has a board power rating of 189 W.
How fast is the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800?
The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 scores 1,211 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 58.1% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #1,284.
What is the CUDA compute capability of the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800?
The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 has CUDA compute capability 1.3.
What bus interface does the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 use?
The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 connects over PCIe 2.0 x16.
When was the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 released?
The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 was released on November 11, 2008.