NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000 is an end-of-life professional graphics card from the Quadro FX Rankine generation, built around the NV30 chip manufactured by TSMC on a 130 nm process. The chip packs 125 million transistors onto a 199 mm² die, giving a transistor density of 628.1K per square millimeter. The card uses 128 MB of DDR2 memory on a 128-bit bus, sustains a pixel rate of 1.200 GPixel/s, and delivers a texture rate of 2.400 GTexel/s. Benchmark data is absent: the database records an average benchmark score of 0 and places the card at the 50th percentile of all GPUs.

Who Should Consider It

The Quadro FX 1000 is for systems built around the AGP 8x bus interface. Its 2x DVI and 1x S-Video outputs suit it to multi-display workstation configurations, while the OpenGL 1.5 (full) and 2.0 (partial) API support points at professional rendering workloads. DirectX 9.0a is also present, covering applications written against that API version.

At its performance tier, the card is best suited to modest resolutions and restrained settings. The 128 MB frame buffer and 9.600 GB/s of bandwidth keep the data pool small; at high resolutions the buffer fills quickly, so workloads that demand large textures or deep color buffers must be scaled back. The 4 ROPs deliver 1.200 GPixel/s, which limits how quickly pixels can be written, and the 8 TMUs supply 2.400 GTexel/s for texturing duty. These are fill-rate figures for an era of moderate resolutions, not for high-density displays.

The 50th percentile placement reinforces that positioning. Sitting exactly at the midpoint of the database means half of all GPUs are above it and half are below it — but because the average benchmark score is 0, that percentile reflects a structural position rather than a measured result. The intended use is legacy-compatibility computing with expectations set by the 2003 lineage.

How It Compares

The fact pack lists no nearest rivals for the Quadro FX 1000; the nearestRivals array is empty. There are therefore no rival names, scores, or deltaPct percentages to compare against. In the absence of direct competitor data, the only cross-database placement comes from the 50th percentile, which anchors the card at the center of the database distribution. That says nothing about which specific products are faster or slower — it is a positional fact, not a measured one.

The product lineage is documented by the predecessor and successor entries. The predecessor is the Quadro4 Celcius, and the successor is the Quadro FX Curie. The Quadro FX 1000 sits between those two product positions, inside the Quadro FX Rankine generation and on the NV30 chip. No benchmark scores exist to quantify how much faster or slower it is than the Quadro4 Celcius or how far behind the Quadro FX Curie it stands; the data records only the generational order.

With no score set and no rivals listed, any comparative statement must rest on the chip and memory features described in the data. The 125 million transistor count, the 128-bit memory bus, and the 128 MB capacity are the quantitative descriptors that distinguish this entry from others in the database. The 50th percentile remains the only summary comparison the database offers.

Ray Tracing and Feature Set

Neither RT cores nor tensor cores are listed for the Quadro FX 1000. Hardware-accelerated ray tracing is therefore not part of the feature set, and tensor-based acceleration is absent. These null fields place the card in the pre-ray-tracing era, where rendering throughput was measured by fixed rasterization rates.

The API support confirms that position. DirectX 9.0a is the supported DirectX version, and OpenGL is supported at 1.5 in full, with 2.0 only partial. Vulkan is not listed. The partial OpenGL 2.0 support suggests a transitional implementation, with the full 1.5 profile treated as the stable target. Applications written for later API revisions would not find complete support in this card.

For actual rendering throughput, the data cites 8 TMUs, 4 ROPs, 1.200 GPixel/s, and 2.400 GTexel/s. These figures define the card's rasterization capability: 2.400 GTexel/s of texture fetching and 1.200 GPixel/s of pixel writing. The display pipeline includes 2x DVI and 1x S-Video outputs, enabling multi-monitor DVI setups through the two DVI ports.

FAQ

Q: Does the Quadro FX 1000 support hardware ray tracing?

A: No. The fact pack lists no RT cores and no tensor cores for this card.

Q: What APIs does it support?

A: DirectX 9.0a and OpenGL 1.5 (full), plus OpenGL 2.0 (partial). Vulkan is not listed.

Q: What is the memory configuration?

A: 128 MB of DDR2 on a 128-bit bus, with a bandwidth of 9.600 GB/s. The memory clock is 300 MHz with a 600 Mbps effective data rate.

Q: What power supply is recommended?

A: A 200 W PSU is the suggested rating, with power delivered through a single Molex connector.

Q: What bus interface does the card use?

A: AGP 8x.

Q: When was it released, and is it still in production?

A: It was released on January 20, 2003, and its production status is end-of-life.

Memory Subsystem

The Quadro FX 1000 carries 128 MB of DDR2 memory, a small allocation even for a card released in January 2003. The memory runs at 300 MHz with 600 Mbps effective throughput, across a 128-bit bus, and that configuration produces a bandwidth figure of 9.600 GB/s.

For high resolutions, capacity and bandwidth act together as constraints. A 128 MB buffer must hold color, depth, and texture data; once that space is consumed, texture swaps become necessary, and each swap consumes bandwidth from the same 9.600 GB/s pool. The 4 ROPs draw 1.200 GPixel/s and the 8 TMUs pull 2.400 GTexel/s, and all of that data crosses the same memory pipe.

What this means for settings: at high resolutions, the frame buffer fills faster and the practical texture working set shrinks. The card has little headroom for the large high-resolution texture sets that later generations could hold. The path is to lower resolution and texture detail until the working set fits inside 128 MB. The database gives no benchmark scores to quantify the threshold, so the guidance is qualitative: the memory subsystem is the clear constraint, and it is the reason this card belongs at modest settings.

Power and Cooling

The fact pack does not specify a TDP for the Quadro FX 1000. The power delivery path is nonetheless documented: a single Molex connector supplies power, and the suggested PSU rating is 200 W. These two facts define the electrical envelope for system builders.

The physical design is a single-slot card measuring 229 mm in length (9 inches) and 111 mm in height (4.4 inches). The slot width means the card occupies one expansion slot, leaving adjacent slots free for other devices. The length is a standard-format size for the interface generation. There is no temperature or cooling capacity data in the record, so thermal behavior must be described qualitatively: a single-slot cooler paired with a 200 W system PSU suggests a moderate power draw, but the TDP absent from the data cannot be confirmed.