The GeForce Compared To The Rest Of Its Class

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

Table of content:
3 – The GeForce Compared To The Re...
  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

The GeForce Compared To The Rest Of Its Class

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  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 -

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