NVIDIA GeForceFX 5900 Ultra: The Way FX is Meant to be Played!!

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Comparison Table

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Header Cell - Column 0	ATI Radeon 9800 PRO	NVIDIA GeForceFX 5800 Ultra	NVIDIA GeForceFX 5900 Ultra
Chip Technology	256 bit	256 bit	256 bit
Process	0.15 Micron	0.13 Micron	0.13 Micron
Transistors	~107 Million (?)	125 Million	130 Million
Memory Bus	256 bit DDR/DDR2	128 bit DDR2	256 bit DDR
Memory Bandwidth	21.8 GB/s	16 GB/s	27.2 GB/s
Pixel Fillrate	3.04 Gigapixel/s	- Texelrate (Color+Z): 2000 texel/s- Z-rate (Z): 4000/s- Stencilrate: 4000/s- Texturerate: 4000/s	- Texelrate (Color+Z): 1800 texel/s- Z-rate (Z): 3600/s- Stencilrate: 3600/s- Texturerate: 3600/s
Anti Aliased Fillrate	18.2 Billion AA Samples/s	~16 Billion AA Samples/s	~27.2 Billion AA Samples/s
Max FSAA Mode	6x	4x	4x
Triangle Transform Rate	380 M Triangles/s	350 M Triangles/s	315 M Triangles/s
AGP Bus	1x/2x/4x/8x	1x/2x/4x/8x	1x/2x/4x/8x
Memory	128/256 MB	128/256 MB	128/256 MB
GPU Clock	380 MHz	500 MHz	450 MHz
Memory Clock	340 MHz (680 DDR)	500 MHz (1000 DDR2)	425 MHz (850 DDR)
Memory	?	BGA 2.0ns	BGA 2.0ns
Vertex Shader	4	FP Array	FP Array
Pixel Pipelines	8	4 for color & Z8 for z8 for stencil8 for texture	4 for color & Z8 for z8 for stencil8 for texture
Texture Units Per Pipe	1	1	1
Textures per Texture Unit	8	16	16
Vertex S. Version	2	2.0+	2.0+
Pixel S. Version	2	2.0+	2.0+
DirectX Generation	9	9.0 (+)	9.0 (+)
FSAA Modi	MultiSampling	MultiSampling	MultiSampling
Memory Optmizations	Hyper Z III+	LMA II OptimizedColor Compression	LMA II OptimizedColor Compression
Optmizations	SmartShader 2.1SmoothVision 2.1	IntelliSample	IntelliSample HCT
Display Outputs	2	2	2
Chip Internal Ramdacs	2 x 400 MHz	2 x 400 MHz	2 x 400 MHz
Chip External Ramdacs	-	-	-
Bits per Color Channel	10	10	10
Special	TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStreamAdaptive FilteringF-Buffer	TV Encoder On-ChipExtended ProgammabilityAdaptive Filtering	TV Encoder On-ChipExtended ProgammabilityAdaptive FilteringUltraShadow
Estimated Price	$399	$399	$399