Card Specification
So you want to see the FX? Well this is a picture of the core of the GPU
GPU and Memory
- GeForce FX 5800 Ultra
- Core clock Speed - 500MHz
- .13u Manufacturing
- 256-Bit GPU
- 125 Million Transistors
- 8 Pixel Per Clock (8 Pixel Pipelines)
- 1 TMU Per Pipe (16 Textures per unit)
- Flip-Chip BGA Package with copper interconnects
- Interface - AGP8X
- 128-Bit 500MHz DDRII (1 GHz)
- 128 MB Memory
- 3rd. Generation Lightspeed Memory Architecture
- 48GB/s Effective bandwidth through the use of compression techniques
Features:
- Full DX9 Compliance
- 64-Bit Floating-Point Color
- 128-Bit Floating-Point Color
- 2 x 400MHz Internal RAMDACs
Software:
- Digital Vibrance Control 3.0
- Conditional Execution for both Pixel and Vertex
- Unified Vertex and Pixel Shading instruction set
- Unified Driver Architecture
- nView 2.0 - Multi-Display Technology
- True Data-Dependant at Vertex
The full 9700 Pro specifications are over here. One thing which does already stick out is that ATI have a 256Bit memory pipeline - but nVIDIA have a 128bit memory pipeline - I wonder why they have adopted this - will it hold the card back?
