High-Precision
Graphics When we say
"cinematic," we don't mean washed-up Hollywood has-beens waving
weapons around against a bad blue screen in some hastily-produced FMV.
We're talking fully realized 3D characters conjured before you in real
time, lovingly crafted by the world's premiere interactive artists. It's
no coincidence that the NVIDIA GeForce is their preferred platform—and
once you see the new generation GPU in action, you won't accept anything
less. Each and
every pixel drawn to your screen goes through many intense mathematical
computations to determine its color and brightness. Other chips fail to
maintain a full 128 bits of detailed information throughout the graphics
pipeline; as a result, "rounding errors" result. This can—and
does—result in positive values when a negative is correct, or a
zero when a very small value is called for. By the time the multitude
of calculations is performed and the image displayed on your screen, these
errors accumulate to the point where not only is the resulting image unconvincing,
it's downright disappointing.
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Avid
gamers demand the most immersive, insanely realistic gaming experience
possible. Only the NVIDIA® GeForce FX GPU goes beyond the polygon-pushing
rhetoric and improves the quality of each and every pixel, packing a double-edged
cinematic sword that puts even its closest competitors to shame. By combining
the incredible dynamic range of today's state-of-the-art 3D motion pictures
with the finely tuned studio-quality precision of the industry's sole
fully 128-bit graphics pipeline, the GeForce FX brings you the most intense
cinematic visions available. All with the full-on maximum frame-rate horsepower
you've come to expect from NVIDIA. 
The
real world is filled with dramatic contrasts between lights, shadows and
colors, from the brightest, harshest white to the deepest, darkest black.
For any game world to convincingly depict a 3D environment, it needs to
simulate this seemingly infinite range in a decidedly finite space. With
each added "bit" of light or color information afforded a game,
the quality and accuracy of the resulting image grow exponentially. 32-bit
color only gives each of the red, green, blue and alpha channels 256 choices.
128-bit color provides the developer with literally millions of choices
for each channel. For film-quality real-time animated visuals, there's
simply no substitute. The GeForce FX delivers this demanding level of
excellence in real time. 
Put
simply, lack of precision is what causes lackluster picture quality in
even the most professionally produced games. All the affecting beauty
of the Grand Canyon is lost if seen through filthy, scratched sunglasses,
and even the best games suffer a similar fate when forced through hardware
that tolerates mistakes in its most basic operations. Without sufficient
data, bump maps, created to bring more realism to the surface of 3D objects,
develop moiré patterns, destroying the illusion. Rippling water,
intended to reflect and refract the game environment, develops distracting
and unnatural "checkering" eyesores. With the GeForce FX, there's
no need to tolerate these blemishes.