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The GeForce Compared To The Rest Of Its Class

07:00 - Wednesday 14 April 2004 by Lars Weinand

	ATI Radeon 9800 XT	NVIDIA GeForceFX 5950 Ultra	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra
Codename	R360	NV38	NV40
Chip Technology	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Process	0.15 Micron	0.13 Micron	0.13 Micron
Transistors	~107 Million (?)	130 Million	222 Million
Memory Bus	256-bit GDDR	256-bit GDDR	256-bit GDDR3
Memory Bandwidth	23.4 GB/s	30.4 GB/s	35.2 GB/s
Pixel Fillrate	3.04 Gigapixel/s	- Texelrate (Color+Z): 1900 texel/s - Z-rate (Z): 3800/s - Stencilrate: 3800/s - Texturerate: 3800/s	unknown
Max FSAA Mode	6x	4x / 4xMS+2xSS	4x / 4xMS+2xSS
Triangle Transform Rate	412 M Triangles/s	356 M Triangles/s	600 M Triangles/s
AGP Bus	2x/4x/8x	2x/4x/8x	2x/4x/8x
Memory	256MB	128/256MB	128/256/512MB
GPU Clock	412 MHz	475 MHz	400 MHz
Memory Clock	365 MHz (730 DDR)	475 MHz (950 DDR)	550 MHz (1100 DDR)
Memory (on reference board)	Hynix BGA specified for 400 MHz		Samsung 600MHz GDDR
Vertex Shader	4	FP Array	6 Units
Pixel Pipelines	8x1	4x2 / 8x0	16x1 / 32x0
Texture Units Per Pipe	1	2	1
Textures per Texture Unit	8	16	unknown
Vertex S. Version	2	2.0	3.0
Pixel S. Version	2	2.0	3.0
DirectX Generation	9.0	9.0	9.0c
FSAA Modi	MultiSampling	MultiSampling SuperSampling Mixed Mode	MultiSampling SuperSampling Mixed Mode
Memory Optmizations	Hyper Z III+	LMA II Optimized Color Compression	LMA III Optimized Color Compression
Optmizations	SmartShader 2.1 SmoothVision 2.1	IntelliSample HCT	IntelliSample 3.0
Display Outputs	2	2	2
Chip Internal Ramdacs	2 x 400 MHz	2 x 400 MHz	2 x 400 MHz
Chip External Ramdacs	-	-	-
Bits per Color Channel	10	10	10
Special	TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStream Adaptive Filtering F-Buffer	TV Encoder On-Chip; Extended Progammability Adaptive Filtering UltraShadow	Video Processor and TV Encoder On-Chip; Extended Progammability Adaptive Filtering, True Trilinear Filtering, UltraShadow
Launch price	$499 (old launch price)	$499 (old launch price)	$499
Street price	~ $365	~ $379	-