A New Dish For The Mainstream: GeForce FX 5700 Ultra, Continued
Die FX 5700 Ultra compared to its competitors:
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ATI Radeon 9600 PRO
ATI Radeon 9600 XT
NVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti 4200-8x
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra
Codename
RV350
RV360
NV25
NV31
NV36
Chip Technology
256-bit
256-bit
256-bit
256-bit
256-bit
Process
0.13 Micron
0.13 Micron
0.15 Micron
0.13 Micron
0.13 Micron
Transistors
~75 Mio
~75 Mio
~63 Mio
~80 Mio
~82 Mio
Memory Bus
128-bit DDR
128-bit DDR
128-bit DDR
128-bit DDR
128-bit DDR
Memory Bandwidth
9.6 GB/s
9.6 GB/s
8.0 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Pixel Fillrate
1.6 Gigapixel/s
2.0 Gigapixel/s
1.1 Gigapixel/s
1.6 Gigapixel/s
1.9 Gigapixel/s
AGP Bus
1x/2x/4x/8x
1x/2x/4x/8x
1x/2x/4x/8x
1x/2x/4x/8x
1x/2x/4x/8x
Triangles/s
200M
250M
113M
100M
356M
Memory
128/256/MB
128/256 MB
64/128 MB
128/256 MB
128/256 MB
GPU Clock
400 MHz
800 MHz
250 MHz
400 MHz
475 MHz
Memory Clock
300 MHz (600 DDR)
300 MHz (600 DDR)
257 MHz (514 DDR)
400 MHz (800 DDR)
450 MHz (900 DDR)
Vertex Shader
2
2
2
1 (Array)
1 (Array)
Pixel Pipelines
4
4
4
4
4
Texture Units Per Pipe
1
1
2
1
1
Textures per Texture Unit
16
16
4
16
16
Vertex S. Version
2.0
2.0
1.1
2.0
2.0
Pixel S. Version
2.0
2.0
1.3
2.0
2.0
DirectX Generation
9.0
9.0
8.1
9.0
9.0
FSAA Modi
MultiSamplingMax 6x
MultiSamplingMax 6x
MultiSamplingMax 4x
MultiSamplingMax 4xMixedModesMax 8x
MultiSamplingMax 4xMixedModesMax 8x
Anisotropic Filtering
2/4/8/16x
2/4/8/16x
2/4/8x
2/4/8x
2/4/8x
Memory Optmizations
Hyper Z III+
Hyper Z III+
LMA II
IntelliSample
IntelliSample
Optmizations
SmartShader 2.0SmoothVision 2.1
SmartShader 2.0SmoothVision 2.1
nFiniteFX IIAccuview
CineFXIntelliSample
CineFX 2.0IntelliSample
Display Outputs
2
2
2
2
2
Chip Internal Ramdacs
2 x 400 MHz
2 x 400 MHz
2 x 400 MHz
2 x 400 MHz
2 x 400 MHz
Chip External Ramdacs
-
-
-
-
-
Bits per Color Channel
10
10
8
10
10
Special
TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStreamAdaptive Filtering
TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStreamAdaptive Filtering
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TV Encoder On-Chip;Adaptive Filtering, DirectX 9+
TV Encoder On-Chip;Adaptive Filtering, DirectX 9+
Launch-Price (+tax)
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$199
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$199
Street-Price (+tax)
~ $150
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~ $90
~$150-180Beware of Flipchip version (400 MHz Core)!
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