Nvidia GeForce FX 5700 Ultra Preview - tech
(hx) 04:05 PM CEST - Oct,23 2003
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HomeLAN has posted
a preview
of the Nvidia GeForce FX 5700 Ultra graphics card, based on checking out a
reference board of the upcoming new mainstream PC graphics solution. They also
talk about the 5950 card and Nvidia's plans for the PCI Express standard. Here
is a bit:
Out of all the benchmarks we ran on the 5700, the Gun Metal set was perhaps the most interesting. While this comparison will be unscientific, AnandTech ran the same set of Gun Metal benchmarks against a slew of cards on a faster machine; their 5600U scored only 14.5, and the Radeon 9600 XT 18.9. Our 5700, on an inferior machine, scored 23.1, well above the 5600U and the Radeon. The best explanation we can come up is that Gun Metal, being a DX9-based program, has shaders that can be modified by UCT, and that's exactly what happened. Gun Metal has primarily advertised itself as a pixel shader-heavy test in the past(as opposed to vertex shading), so it seems likely UCT offered the biggest boost(the rest being the core boost, and the aforementioned Vertex abilities). The 5600U can make use of the UCT too however, so the real difference remains to be seen, but it's an impressive sign of what the UCT might be able to do in DX9, and against the Radeon series.
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