The Quadro FX 500 was a professional graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on May 21st, 2003. Built on the 150 nm process, and based on the NV34 graphics processor, in its NV34 GL variant, the card supports DirectX 9.0a. Since Quadro FX 500 does not support DirectX 11 or DirectX 12, it might not be able to run all the latest games. The NV34 graphics processor is an average sized chip with a die area of 124 mm² and 45 million transistors. 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). NVIDIA has paired 128 MB DDR memory with the Quadro FX 500, which are connected using a 128-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 270 MHz, memory is running at 240 MHz.
Being a single-slot card, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 500 does not require any additional power connector, its power draw is not exactly known. Display outputs include: 1x DVI, 1x VGA. Quadro FX 500 is connected to the rest of the system using an AGP 8x interface. The card measures 152 mm in length, 111 mm in width, and features a single-slot cooling solution.