GeForceFX: NVIDIA goes Hollywood?

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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+:

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Header Cell - Column 0	DirectX 8	DirectX 8.1	DirectX 9	GeForceFX
Pixel Shader	1.1	1.4	2.0	2.0+
Max. Texture Instruction	4	6	16	16
Max. Color Instructions	4	8	32	1024
Max. Temp Storage	8	8	64	1024
Data Type	Integer	Integer	Floating P.	Floating P.
(Max.) Data Precision	32 bit	48 bit	128 (96) bit	64 or 128 bit
Instruction Predicates	-	-	12	64
Unlimited Dependet Textures	-	-	-	Yes
Swizzling	-	-	-	Yes
Advanced Instructions	-	-	-	Yes
Conditional Write Masks	-	-	-	Yes
Dynamic Flow Control	-	-	-	Yes

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+:

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Header Cell - Column 0	DirectX 8	DirectX 9	GeForceFX
Vertex Shader	1.1	2	2.0+
Max. Instructions	128	1024	65536
Max. Static Instructions	128	256	256
Max. Constants	96	256	256
Temporary Registers	12	12	16
Max Loops	0	4	256
Conditional Write Masks	-	-	Yes
Call & Return	-	-	Yes
Static Flow Control	-	Yes	Yes
Dynamic Flow Control	-	-	Yes

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+).