NVIDIA Puts Its (New) Cards on the Table

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A New Dish For The Mainstream: GeForce FX 5700 Ultra, Continued

Die FX 5700 Ultra compared to its competitors:

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Header Cell - Column 0 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 Row 27 - Cell 3 TV Encoder On-Chip;Adaptive Filtering, DirectX 9+ TV Encoder On-Chip;Adaptive Filtering, DirectX 9+
Launch-Price (+tax) Row 28 - Cell 1 $199 Row 28 - Cell 3 Row 28 - Cell 4 $199
Street-Price (+tax) ~ $150 Row 29 - Cell 2 ~ $90 ~$150-180Beware of Flipchip version (400 MHz Core)! Row 29 - Cell 5