Nvidia is promoting its new GeForce FX 5900 Ultra chip as ‘the fastest GPU in history’. The 5900 Ultra, equipped with 256Mbyte of SDRAM, promises a small performance boost over the Nvidia 5800 Ultra and ATI’s Radeon 9800 Pro chip (both with 128Mbyte).
Nvidia is eager to make up for the shortcomings of its last release; the GeForce FX 5800 Ultra, which used a cooling mechanism so loud that some critics called it ‘the lawnmower’. The 5900 Ultra promises to be quieter but will still occupy two slots on your PC.
The 5900 has a reworked anisotropic filtering engine promising superior image quality. Anti-aliasing softens jagged edges on 3D images, and anisotropic filtering helps smooth scenes where textured images, like a tiled floor, start in the foreground and extend back.
The 5900 Ultra’s features are more tuned for forthcoming games. One such feature, UltraShadow, renders shadows and scenes more efficiently, making games like the upcoming Doom III and Half-Life 2 run both faster and smoother, Nvidia says. But such titles won’t be in stores until Christmas.
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05/09/2003
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