Astonishingly the gaming website Adrenaline Vault has posted a detailed preview of Nvidia's upcoming flagship graphics processor NV35. The preview covers the details of Detonator drivers v44.03, a whole lot of screenshots of the graphics card itself and most surprisingly a load of benchmarks as well. Nvidia is going to announce NV35 at E3 - the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles starting off this week. NV35 will be produced in 0.13 micron technology and features the long awaited 256bit wide memory bus while operating at 450 MHz / 425 MHz core and memory speed. The FX 5900 Ultra will be equipped with a thermal solution that is similar to the Quadro FX cooler and according to Avault is even more quiet than some Ti 4600 cooling units. Here is a snip from the article:
As you can see, the NV35 builds upon the features of the NV30 GPU that powered the GeForce FX 5800 Ultra, adding in some new features and revamping other areas entirely. A wider memory bus, new CineFX 2.0 and Intellisample engines, UltraShadow programmable hardware shadow engine, improvements in Pixel and Vertex shaders, 8 render pipelines, as well as a new physical design and thermal management solution mean the FX 5900 Ultra is a new card from the ground up... [Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo] In a bit of head-to-head action, here you can see the R300, NV30, and NV35 cards and how they performed at the highest quality settings. Not only did the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra seriously correct the shortcomings of the FX 5800 Ultra, but it has a solid performance lead on the R300 powered Radeon 9700 Pro. Read the full blown 15 page preview / review at Adrenaline Vault. I just noticed that polish website VidiLab IT has posted details on the raw performance of the new card. Test system: AMD Athlon XP 3000+ EPoX EP-8RDA3+ (nForce2 Ultra400) 512 MB DDR400 80GB Maxtor 7.200 o/min Results: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro | Catalyst 3.2: 5.496 FX 5900 Ultra | Detonator FX: 6.678 FX 5900 Ultra | Detonator 43.51: 5.981 FX 5800 Ultra | Detonator 43.51: 5.429
As you can see, the NV35 builds upon the features of the NV30 GPU that powered the GeForce FX 5800 Ultra, adding in some new features and revamping other areas entirely. A wider memory bus, new CineFX 2.0 and Intellisample engines, UltraShadow programmable hardware shadow engine, improvements in Pixel and Vertex shaders, 8 render pipelines, as well as a new physical design and thermal management solution mean the FX 5900 Ultra is a new card from the ground up... [Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo] In a bit of head-to-head action, here you can see the R300, NV30, and NV35 cards and how they performed at the highest quality settings. Not only did the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra seriously correct the shortcomings of the FX 5800 Ultra, but it has a solid performance lead on the R300 powered Radeon 9700 Pro. Read the full blown 15 page preview / review at Adrenaline Vault. I just noticed that polish website VidiLab IT has posted details on the raw performance of the new card. Test system: AMD Athlon XP 3000+ EPoX EP-8RDA3+ (nForce2 Ultra400) 512 MB DDR400 80GB Maxtor 7.200 o/min Results: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro | Catalyst 3.2: 5.496 FX 5900 Ultra | Detonator FX: 6.678 FX 5900 Ultra | Detonator 43.51: 5.981 FX 5800 Ultra | Detonator 43.51: 5.429
