NVIDIA NV31

NV31

NV31 5600

NV31 5600 XT

NV31 5600 Ultra

GF-FX-5600-U-A1

NV31 Go5650

NV31 Go700

Die Shot

NVIDIA's NV31 GPU uses the Rankine architecture and is made using a 130 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 121 mm² and a transistor count of 80 million it is a small chip. NV31 supports DirectX 9.0a. For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version N/A can be used. It features 4 pixel shaders and 2 vertex shaders, 4 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).

Graphics Processor

Released: Mar 1st, 2003

GPU Name: NV31

Architecture: Rankine

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 130 nm

Transistors: 80 million

Density: 661.2K / mm²

Die Size: 121 mm²

Graphics Features

DirectX: 9.0a

OpenGL: 1.5 (full)
2.0 (partial)

OpenCL: N/A

Vulkan: N/A

Pixel Shader: 2.0a

Vertex Shader: 2.0a

WDDM: 1.0

Render Config

Pixel Shaders: 4

Vertex Shaders: 2

TMUs: 4

ROPs: 4

Max. TDP: 37 W

All Rankine GPUs

NVIDIA GPU Architecture History

2025 Blackwell 2.0
2024 Blackwell
2023 Hopper
2022-2024 Ada Lovelace
2020-2024 Ampere
2018-2022 Turing
2017-2020 Volta
2016-2021 Pascal
2014-2019 Maxwell 2.0
2014-2017 Maxwell
2013-2015 Kepler 2.0
2012-2018 Kepler
2010-2016 Fermi 2.0
2010-2013 VLIW Vec4
2010-2016 Fermi
2007-2013 Tesla 2.0
2006-2010 Tesla
2003-2013 Curie
2003-2005 Rankine
2001-2003 Kelvin
1999-2005 Celsius
1998-2000 Fahrenheit

Graphics cards using the NVIDIA NV31 GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT PCI	NV31 5600 XT	64 MB	4 / 2	4	4	235 MHz	200 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600	NV31 5600	128 MB	4 / 2	4	4	325 MHz	250 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra	GF-FX-5600-U-A1	128 MB	4 / 2	4	4	400 MHz	400 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT	NV31 5600 XT	128 MB	4 / 2	4	4	235 MHz	200 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600	NV31 Go5600	128 MB	4 / 2	4	4	275 MHz	250 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650	NV31 Go5650	128 MB	4 / 2	4	4	325 MHz	295 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX Go700	NV31 Go700	128 MB	4 / 2	4	4	295 MHz	295 MHz

NV31 GPU Notes

Latest Drivers:
Windows NT 4:
ForceWare Release 77.56
ForceWare Release 77.72 Desktop

Windows 95 / 98 / ME:
ForceWare Release 81.98

Windows 2000:
GeForce Release 93.71 / 93.81 Beta
Quadro Release 169.96

Windows XP / Server 2003 x64:
GeForce Release 175.19
Quadro Release 169.96

Windows Vista:
ForceWare Release 96.85

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