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"DJSpaceMouse" <
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I thought the people in this NG might find this
interesting. Who wants one?
It's been a long time coming, but today Nvidias
next-gen graphics chip family, the NV30, gets its first official public
airing. And a new moniker: step forward the Nvidia GeForce FX, a name intended
to convey a "new age of cinematic visual effects for the desktop".
The
GeForce FX renders graphics up to four times faster than the Ti 4600, hitherto
Nvidias top-performing chip, and it is said to be approx. 25-50 per cent
faster than the ATI Radeon 9700, current graphics performance leader. Systems
incorporating the FX 5800 and 5800 Ultra, the first GeForce FX chips, should
be out in January. At retail level, the chips will cost approx. $400 and $500.
So what's new? First up, a faster processor: 500MHz v. 325MHz in used
in the TI4600. Next, theres more memory bandwidth 1GHz DDRII DRAM (600MHz
DDR1); new anti-aliasing technology, dubbed Intellisample, designed to double
the efficiency of memory reads and writes; and AGP 8X bandwidth (double that
of AGP 4X). Built using 0.13micron production technology, the GeForce FX also
handles eight pixels per clock cycle, against 4 for its immediate predecessor,
by definition doubling the theoretical fill rate.
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"loop29" <Nahh,
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this one is 5 or 6 months away from getting retail and available in the
stores, I didn´t believe those diagrams which showing a 3 times faster
geometry processing unit of the GFFX compared to Ti 4600, let´s see what will
left over when first benchmarks hit the web..
regards