GeForce FX5900 announced. New Top Dog
www.nvidia.com
Ati has lost it's performance crown. Yikes! This card is $500 however. Gamers sure do take in on the nose.
Ati has lost it's performance crown. Yikes! This card is $500 however. Gamers sure do take in on the nose.
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This new GPU is manufactured in the 0.13 micron process for ultra-high clock frequencies and features the new NVIDIA® CineFX? 2.0 engine with second-generation pixel shaders; true 128-bit color precision; full speed, full floating-point precision; a 256-bit memory interface and support for the latest Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 and OpenGL® feature sets to ensure great visual quality and mesmerizing graphics.
Graphics Core: 256-bit
Memory Interface: 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth: 27.2GB/sec
Fill Rate: 3.6 billion texels/sec.
Vertices/sec. 338 million
Memory Data Rate: 850MHz
Pixels per Clock (peak): 8
Textures per Pixel: 16*
RAMDACs: 400MHz
CineFX 2.0 Engine
The second-generation CineFX 2.0 engine powers advanced pixel and vertex shader processing and true 128-bit color precision. Delivering double the floating-point pixel shader power of the previous CIneFX engine, CineFX 2.0 produces a visible performance boost through its more efficient execution of pixel shader programs.
Intellisample HCT
Second-generation Intellisample technology delivers up to a 50-percent increase in compression efficiency for compressing color, texture, and z-data, and powers unprecedented visual quality for resolutions up to 1600 x 1280.
UltraShadow Technology
Powers the next-generation of complex, realistic shadow effects by accelerating shadow generation. Accurate shadows that effectively mimic reality without bogging down frame rates are one of the keys to more believable game environments.
The real question is, has nVIDIA managed to get rid of the absurdly loud fan and its attendant, PCI slot-hogging plastic thingy?
Sure, the JPEGs on nVIDIA's site look pretty enough. But there are no shots of the card. I'll wait for AnandTech or Tom's Hardware to put it through its paces before getting excited.
Tomshardware
Originally posted by Amorph
The GeForce FX looked impressive on paper, too.
The real question is, has nVIDIA managed to get rid of the absurdly loud fan and its attendant, PCI slot-hogging plastic thingy?
Sure, the JPEGs on nVIDIA's site look pretty enough. But there are no shots of the card. I'll wait for AnandTech or Tom's Hardware to put it through its paces before getting excited.
Sadly no. It's still louder than an ATI 9800 and still uses up an extra PCI slot because of the size and fan. Anandtech/Tom and others are getting HAMMERED Anandtech's review is like 30 pages with some DOOM III info.
I'm not sure I'd pay $500 to run Doom Tre in it's full glory but I'll be jealous of those lucky fools that do.
Originally posted by Altivec_2.0
Isn't the 9800 from ati just inches behind this thing though.
The FX5900 is anywhere from 5-20% faster. It's definitely a faster card. I expect Ati to respond within 4-6 months but for the launch of Doom III looks like nvidia will provide the most performance.
Hmmmm let's see.
Dual 2.5Ghz PPC 970
240GB of Drive Space
Nvidia FX5900
6x Superdrive
= Bliss.
Originally posted by hmurchison
The FX5900 is anywhere from 5-20% faster. It's definitely a faster card. I expect Ati to respond within 4-6 months but for the launch of Doom III looks like nvidia will provide the most performance.
Hmmmm let's see.
Dual 2.5Ghz PPC 970
240GB of Drive Space
Nvidia FX5900
6x Superdrive
Great big headphones to shut out the noise
= Bliss.
I'm not in the market anyway, but I'll be interested to see if ATi is capable of responding without bloating their hardware in the same way. They did pick up a team of disgruntled nVIDIA engineers not so long ago.
If ATi can stay neck and neck, while offering a quieter, cheaper, cooler solution, nVIDIA might find themselves in 3dfx's predicament. (However, I expect nVIDIA to change course and recover, unlike 3dfx).
The undertone of one of the engineers was that Nvidia was becoming VERY arrogant. I think they got a reality check. Ati is alot more game than in years past.
Yes 3dfx. Poor chaps had they only had an oem market they would have survived.
I don't seem to find anything that says Mac supported, if not, how long do you think it will take?
It says I'm posting at like almost 2am?