NVIDIA Puts Its (New) Cards on the Table

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The FX 5950 Compared To The Rest Of Its Class

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Header Cell - Column 0	ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128	ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 256	ATI Radeon 9800 XT	NVIDIA GeForceFX 5900 Ultra	NVIDIA GeForceFX 5950 Ultra
Codename	R350	R350	R360	NV35	NV38
Chip Technology	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Process	0.15 Micron	0.15 Micron	0.15 Micron	0.13 Micron	0.13 Micron
Transistors	~107 Million (?)	~107 Million (?)	~107 Million (?)	130 Million	130 Million
Memory Bus	256-bit DDR	256-bit DDR	256-bit DDR/DDR2	256-bit DDR	256-bit DDR
Memory Bandwidth	21.8 GB/s	22.4 GB/s	23.4 GB/s	27.2 GB/s	30.4 GB/s
Pixel Fillrate	3.04 Gigapixel/s	3.04 Gigapixel/s	3.04 Gigapixel/s	- Texelrate (Color+Z): 1800 texel/s- Z-rate (Z): 3600/s- Stencilrate: 3600/s- Texturerate: 3600/s	- Texelrate (Color+Z): 1900 texel/s- Z-rate (Z): 3800/s- Stencilrate: 3800/s- Texturerate: 3800/s
Max FSAA Mode	6x	6x	6x	4x	4x
Triangle Transform Rate	380 M Triangles/s	380 M Triangles/s	412 M Triangles/s	315 M Triangles/s	356 M Triangles/s
AGP Bus	2x/4x/8x	2x/4x/8x	2x/4x/8x	2x/4x/8x	2x/4x/8x
Memory	128 MB	256 MB	256 MB	128/256 MB	128/256 MB
GPU Clock	380 MHz	380 MHz	412 MHz	450 MHz	475 MHz
Memory Clock	340 MHz (680 DDR)	350 MHz (700 DDR)	365 MHz (730 DDR)	425 MHz (850 DDR)	475 MHz (950 DDR)
Memory(on reference board)	?	?	Hynix BGA specified for 400 MHz	Hynix BGA specified for 500 MHz	Row 13 - Cell 5
Vertex Shader	4	4	4	FP Array	FP Array
Pixel Pipelines	8	8	8	4(/8)	4(/8)
Texture Units Per Pipe	1	1	1	1	1
Textures per Texture Unit	8	8	8	16	16
Vertex S. Version	2	2	2	2.0	2.0
Pixel S. Version	2	2	2	2.0	2.0
DirectX Generation	9	9	9	9	9
FSAA Modi	MultiSampling	MultiSampling	MultiSampling	MultiSampling	MultiSampling
Memory Optmizations	Hyper Z III+	Hyper Z III+	Hyper Z III+	LMA II OptimizedColor Compression	LMA II OptimizedColor Compression
Optmizations	SmartShader 2.1SmoothVision 2.1	SmartShader 2.1SmoothVision 2.1	SmartShader 2.1SmoothVision 2.1	IntelliSample HCT	IntelliSample HCT
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	10	10	10
Special	TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStreamAdaptive FilteringF-Buffer	TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStreamAdaptive FilteringF-Buffer	TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStreamAdaptive FilteringF-Buffer	TV Encoder On-Chip; Extended ProgammabilityAdaptive FilteringUltraShadow	TV Encoder On-Chip; Extended ProgammabilityAdaptive FilteringUltraShadow
Launch price	$399	$499	$499	$499	$499
Street price	$300-350	$450-500	Row 30 - Cell 3	$400-500	Row 30 - Cell 5