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