NV40 Alias GeForce 6800 Ultra

07:00 - Wednesday 14 April 2004 by Lars Weinand
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: performance, leap

Table of content:
2 – NV40 Alias GeForce 6800 Ultra
  1. 1 – Introduction
  2. 2 – NV40 Alias GeForce 6800 Ultra
  3. 3 – The GeForce Compared To The Rest Of Its Class
  4. 4 – The Hardware
  5. 5 – The Hardware, Continued
  6. 6 – The Hardware, Continued
  7. 7 – The Hardware, Continued
  8. 8 – Cine FX 3.0
  9. 9 – Pixel Processing Engine
  10. 10 – Pixel Processing Engine
  11. 11 – Vertex Engine
  12. 12 – Shader Model 3.0
  13. 13 – ROP Pixel Pipelines (Raster Operations)
  14. 14 – Possible Applications And Other Peculiarities
  15. 15 – Displacement Mapping
  16. 16 – More Goodies
  17. 17 – Video Processor
  18. 18 – Video Processor, Continued
  19. 19 – ForceWare 60 Driver
  20. 20 – Power Consumption
  21. 21 – Power Consumption, Continued
  22. 22 – Video Acceleration Tests
  23. 23 – Test Setup
  24. 24 – Benchmarks
  25. 25 – Unreal Tournament 2004, Continued
  26. 26 – Unreal Tournament 2004, Continued
  27. 27 – Unreal Tournament 2004, Continued
  28. 28 – Call Of Duty
  29. 29 – Call Of Duty, Continued
  30. 30 – Call Of Duty, Continued
  31. 31 – Call Of Duty, Continued
  32. 32 – AquaMark 3
  33. 33 – AquaMark 3, Continued
  34. 34 – X2 - The Threat
  35. 35 – X2 - The Threat, Continued
  36. 36 – Breed Demo
  37. 37 – Breed Demo, Continued
  38. 38 – Colin McRae Rally 4 Demo
  39. 39 – Colin McRae Rally 4 Demo, Continued
  40. 40 – Nascar Thunder 2004
  41. 41 – Halo - Combat Evolved
  42. 42 – FarCry
  43. 43 – FarCry, Continued
  44. 44 – Image Quality - FSAA
  45. 45 – Image Quality - Anisotropic
  46. 46 – Image Quality - Anisotropic, Continued
  47. 47 – Shader Quality - FarCry
  48. 48 – Image Quality - Summary
  49. 49 – Conclusion

NV40 Alias GeForce 6800 Ultra

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Introducing the GeForce 6800 Ultra. Contrary to the original plans, the AGP versions of the card, which will be launched first, will carry a dual-slot cooling solution.

A quick look at the technical specifications of the GeForce 6800 Ultra, codenamed NV40, will make the heart of any gamer go a-flutter: 222 million transistors, 16 "real" pixel pipelines in a superscalar design, full performance when using 32 Bit floating point precision, pixel and vertex shaders 3.0, 6 vertex shader units (600 million polys/s), an integrated video processor that supports MPEG encoding and decoding in hardware, GDDR 3 memory offering a bandwidth of 35,2 GB/s, rotated grid anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering up to 16x, on-demand real trilinear filtering - and these are just the bare essentials that only even begin to describe the chip.

NVIDIA promises the following compared to NV35/38:

4-8x floating-point shader power 4x shadow processing power 4x occlusion culling efficiency 2x vertex processing power ~2x frame buffer bandwidth

And if you think that some NVIDIA PR-representative conjured these numbers out of thin air, wait for the benchmarks further along in the article. Let's just say the numbers we see there are very convincing.


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