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NVIDIA's New Upper Class: The GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

1:02 PM - October 23, 2003 by Lars Weinand
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: nvidia, puts
Topics: INTEL, NVIDIA, Overclocking

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Table of Contents:
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  1. 1 – Introduction
  2. 2 – NVIDIA's New Upper Class: The GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
  3. 3 – NVIDIA's New Upper Class: The GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, Continued
  4. 4 – NVIDIA's New Upper Class: The GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, Continued
  5. 5 – The FX 5950 Compared To The Rest Of Its Class
  6. 6 – A New Dish For The Mainstream: GeForce FX 5700 Ultra
  7. 7 – A New Dish For The Mainstream: GeForce FX 5700 Ultra, Continued
  8. 8 – A New Dish For The Mainstream: GeForce FX 5700 Ultra, Continued
  9. 9 – A New Dish For The Mainstream: GeForce FX 5700 Ultra, Continued
  10. 10 – The Overclocking Question
  11. 11 – Gainward CoolFX PowerPack! Ultra/1800XP "Golden Sample"
  12. 12 – Gainward CoolFX PowerPack! Ultra/1800XP "Golden Sample", Continued
  13. 13 – NVIDIA ForceWare V52.16
  14. 14 – NVIDIA ForceWare V52.16, Continued
  15. 15 – NVIDIA ForceWare V52.16, Continued
  16. 16 – Image Quality
  17. 17 – Anisotropic Filtering
  18. 18 – Results Aquamark 3
  19. 19 – Pixel Shader Quality
  20. 20 – Pixel Shader Quality, Continued
  21. 21 – AquaMark 3 - Massive Overdraw
  22. 22 – Unreal Tournament - Detail Textures - More "irregularities"?
  23. 23 – Test Setup
  24. 24 – Unreal Tournament 2003
  25. 25 – Unreal Tournament 2003, Continued
  26. 26 – Unreal Tournament 2003, Continued
  27. 27 – Unreal Tournament 2003, Continued
  28. 28 – Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
  29. 29 – Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Continued
  30. 30 – Aquamark 3
  31. 31 – Aquamark 3, Continued
  32. 32 – Tomb Raider - Angel Of Darkness
  33. 33 – Halo - Combat Evolved
  34. 34 – X2 Rolling Demo
  35. 35 – X2 Rolling Demo, Continued
  36. 36 – C&C Generals Demo
  37. 37 – C&C Generals Demo, Continued
  38. 38 – Warcraft III - The Frozen Throne
  39. 39 – Warcraft III - The Frozen Throne, Continued
  40. 40 – Freelancer Demo
  41. 41 – MS Flight Simulator 2004
  42. 42 – Battlefield 1942 - Secret Weapons Of WWII
  43. 43 – Benchmark Impressions
  44. 44 – Conclusion

NVIDIA's New Upper Class: The GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

As the name implies, the GeForce FX 5950, or the NV38, is not a new design and is largely identical to the previous top-of-the-line model, the FX 5900 Ultra.

Like ATi's new Radeon 9600 XT, NVIDIA's new cards benefit from the Taiwanese foundry TSMC's new 130-nm production process. However, the GeForce FX 5950 Ultra only offers a processor clock speed increase of 25 MHz to 475 MHz. The memory is also clocked 50 MHz faster to 475 MHz, increasing the memory bandwidth from 27.2 GB/s (FX 5900U) to 30.4 GB/s (FX 5950U). The new cards also come equipped with 256 MB of RAM on a 256Bit memory bus.

Full frontal. Visually, the card is dominated by its very large heatsink. A design decision that is, as always, a matter of taste.

The back of the card also features passive cooling for the GPU and the memory chips.

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