News: Ufficiali: GeForceFX 5700 e 5950 da nVidia

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<br>nVidia presenta due nuovi chip grafici dedicati ad occupare la fascia media e alta del mercto grafico. Entrambi costruiti con processo produttivo a 0.13micron e compatibili con la standard DirectX9, ambedue le architetture si basano su quella migliorata presente nell'NV35 (GeForceFX 5900).<br>
Il GeForceFX 5700 presenta delle frequenze operative per le memorie pari a 900Mhz con bus a 128bit.<br>
Il GeForceFX 5950, con bus a 256bit, porta le stesse frequenze 950Mhz.<p>



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SANTA CLARA, CA—OCTOBER 23, 2003—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today introduced the NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX 5950 Ultra and the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 series of graphics processing units (GPUs), delivering unprecedented graphics performance levels to the enthusiast and mainstream markets. In conjunction with the Company’s new ForceWare™ release 50 graphics driver, these products are engineered to deliver unmatched image quality and ultra-high performance, cinematic graphics for the hottest new PC games.<p>

"With exciting new titles like Call of Duty™, Deus Ex: Invisible War™, Halo™, XIII, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004®, and Unreal Tournament™ 2004, this Christmas promises to be a dream for PC gamers," stated Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of marketing at NVIDIA. “In addition to being the perfect stocking stuffers to complement this new round of titles, the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and GeForce FX 5700 Ultra GPUs are architected to be the graphics processors of choice for the next generation of highly anticipated cinematic titles like Doom™3 and Half Life™2.”
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The new GeForce FX 5950 Ultra is the fastest GPU in the Company’s history. Manufactured using 0.13 micron process technology at TSMC, this new GPU combines extremely fast clock rates with a 256-bit memory bus. Designed to deliver cinematic-quality graphics and studio-quality color, the GeForce FX GPUs are the only full 128-bit precision computation GPUs in the industry. In addition, the GeForce FX 5950 and 5700 GPUs feature the NVIDIA CineFX™ 2.0 engine with NVIDIA UltraShadow™ technology, designed to improve the shader power that enables more complex effects, and to accelerate the rendering of lighting and shadows.<p>

The NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra GPU is the first produced in 0.13 micron at the IBM foundry in East Fishkill, NY. The GeForce FX 5700 series delivers an enthusiast feature set at a mainstream price to enable next-generation gaming for the masses. With the GeForce FX 5700 gamers can enjoy unbeatable DirectX 9.0 performance at a mainstream price.
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Providing a host of complementary software, the NVIDIA ForceWare unified software environment (USE) unleashes the full power and features of NVIDIA’s desktop, platform, mobile, and multimedia products. Delivering a proven record of compatibility, reliability, and stability with the widest range of games and applications, ForceWare ensures an unparalleled out-of-box experience for every end user by providing:<p>

Industry-leading features for graphics, audio, video, and communications; <br>
One driver for all products: the NVIDIA unified driver architecture (UDA); <br>
Continual performance and feature updates over the life of the product.<br>
In addition, NVIDIA Forceware supports the latest OpenGL® and Microsoft DirectX 9.0 feature sets to ensure unmatched visual quality and mesmerizing 3D graphics.



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In concomitanza con il lancio dei nuovi chip grafici, rinnovato in maniera sensibile è il parco software. I nuovi driver ForceWare della serie 50 introducono notevoli innovazioni nelle performance negli shader, tallone d'Achille attuale della serie GeForceFX.<p>

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The ForceWare release 50 graphics drivers include the NVIDIA unified compiler technology that translates shader programs so that they are optimized for the NVIDIA GPU architecture, substantially improving the performance of next-generation DirectX 9.0 titles such as HalfLife™ 2, XIII, and more. Performance in the DirectX 9.0 application HaloPC™ improves by up to 58% and DirectX 9.0-based Microsoft Flight Simulator™ 9 improves by 33% . <p>

Other features of the NVIDIA ForceWare release 50 graphics drivers include:<p>

Enhanced image quality for both anisotropic filtering and antialiasing <br>
A new NVIDIA nView™ 3.0 multi-display setup wizard for easy configuration of your multi-display settings <br>
nView gridlines to section off the display to help organize your various windows <br>
Customized user profiles to save display settings and image quality settings on a per application/game basis <br>
A new user-friendly interface <br>
Microsoft DirectX and OpenGL support


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La disponibilità dei nuovi prodotti, che con il GeForceFX 5200 vanno a coprire tutti i segmenti del mercato, è immediata.<p>