GeForceFX: NVIDIA goes Hollywood?

The Hardware

• Produced on a 0.13µ process
• Flip-chip design
• 256 bit GPU
• 125 million transistors
• Eight Pixel Shaders
• x Vertex Shaders
• Clock speeds of at least 500 MHz
• DDR-II memory starting at 500 MHz (1 GHz DDR)
• 128 bit memory bus
• Optimized memory interface with lossless Z-compression and color data compression
• AGP 8X
• FX Flow - proprietary copper heat pipe cooling solution

NVIDIA GeForceFX reference card - Top-left view.

3D Features

• Full DirectX 9 support
• Adaptive anisotropic filtering
• Intellisample antialiasing
• 32/64/128 bit color Format (variable)
• Digital Vibrance Control 3.0
• Pixel Shader 2.0+:

This table shows the differences between the GeForce4 Ti4600 (PS 1.1), the Radeon 8500/9000 (PS 1.4), the Radeon 9500/9700 (PS 2.0), and the GeForceFX (PS 2.0+).

• Vertex Shader 2.0+:

The above table shows the differences between the GeForce4 Ti4600 and Radeon 8500/9000 (VS 1.1), the Radeon 9500/9700 (VS 2.0), and the GeForceFX (PS 2.0+).