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

07:00 - Thursday 23 October 2003 by Lars Weinand

Die FX 5700 Ultra compared to its competitors:

	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	128/256MB	64/128MB	128/256MB	128/256MB
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	MultiSampling Max 6x	MultiSampling Max 6x	MultiSampling Max 4x	MultiSampling Max 4x MixedModes Max 8x	MultiSampling Max 4x MixedModes Max 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 2.0 SmoothVision 2.1	SmartShader 2.0 SmoothVision 2.1	nFiniteFX II Accuview	CineFX IntelliSample	CineFX 2.0 IntelliSample
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; FullStream Adaptive Filtering	TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStream Adaptive Filtering		TV Encoder On-Chip;Adaptive Filtering, DirectX 9+	TV Encoder On-Chip;Adaptive Filtering, DirectX 9+
Launch-Price (+tax)		$199			$199
Street-Price (+tax)	~ $150		~ $90	~$150-180 Beware of Flipchip version (400MHz Core)!