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Table Of Contents

• 256-bit Graphics Core
• 128-bit Memory Interface
• 14.4 GB/sec. Memory Bandwidth
• 1.9 billion Texels/sec. Fill Rate
• 356 Million Vertices/sec.
• 900 MHz Memory Data Rate
• 475 MHz Core Clock
• 8 Pixels Per Clock (peak)
• 16 Textures Per Pixel (max in 1 pass)
• Dual 400 MHz RAMDACs

Key Benefits

Product Features

NVIDIA GeForce FX Demos

Designed For High-Performance Gaming

• Utilizes advanced memory technology - including DDR2 - for blazing performance
• NVIDIA® Intellisample™ HCT (texture, color, and z compression) for screaming performance at high resolutions
• Delivers 3x the vertes prossing pover over previous generations
• 0.13 micron process for faster clock rates
• AGP 8X

NVIDIA® CineFX™ 2.0 Engine Drives Incredible Cinematic Gaming Effects

• NVIDIA® UltraShadow™ technology for next-generation games
• True 128-bit precision computation
• Delivers 2x the floating-point pixel shader power ofver previous generations

NVIDIA: The Way It's Meant To Be Played

• The hottest games are developed and optimizaed on NVIDIA hardware
• Experience stunning cinematic graphics at blazing speeds
• The platform of choice for PC gamers worldwide
• Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 and OpenGL® 1.5 support
• Complete support for high-level shader languages like Cg and HLSL

NVIDIA® ForceWare™ Software for Unmatched Features and Rock-Solid Stability

• NVIDIA® Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
• Compatibility, Stability, Reliability
• NVIDIA® nView™ multi-display technology
• Continual performance and feature updates over the life of the product

NVIDIA UltraShadow™ Technology

Advanced technology designed to enhance the perforamnce of bleeding-edge games that use complex shadows.

NVIDIA® CineFX™ 2.0 Engine

Powers cinematic effects beyond imagination. With advanced verted and pixel shader capabilities, stunning and complex special effects are possible. In addition, increased horsepower delivers faster and smoother gameplay.

Advanced Pixel Shaders

New technology allows floating-point shader operation to run 2x faster than previous-generation GPUs.

128-bit Studio-Precision Computation

128-bit studio precision computation through the entire pipeline ensures the best image quality for even the most demanding applications by preventing image defects due to low precision.

NVIDIA® ForceWare™ Unified Software Environment (USE)

Delivers a compelling out of the box experience for every user by delivering industry-leading features for graphics, audio, video, communications, storage, and security; one driver for all products; as well as continual performance and feature updates over the life of the product.

NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)

Delivers rock-solid forward and backward compatibility with software drivers. Simplifies upgrading to a new NVIDIA product or drivers because all NVIDIA products work with the same driver software.

DirectX 9.0 Optimizations and Support

Ensures top-notch compatibility and performance for all DirectX 9.0 applications.

OpenGL 1.5 Optimizations and Support

Ensures top-notch compatibility and performance for all OpenGL applications.

NVIDIA® nView™ Multi-Display Technology

Advanced technology provides the ultimate in viewing flexibility and control for multiple monitors or displays.

NVIDIA® Digital Vibrance Control™ (DVC) 3.0

Allows the user to adjust color controls digitally to compensate for the lighting conditions of the workspace, in order to achieve accurate, bright colors in all conditions.

AGP 8X

Provides double the bandwidth of AGP 4X - 2.1GB/sec. vs. 1.1GB/sec. AGP 8X enables more complex models and detailed textures, creating richer and more lifelike environments. Uninterrupted data flow allos for smoother video streaming and faster, more seamless gameplay.

Dual 400 MHz RAMDACs

Blasing-fast RAMDACs support dual QXGA displays with ultra-high, ergonomic refresh rates - up to 2048x1536@85Hz.

DVI Support

Able to drive high resolution flat-panel displays with resolutions up to and including 1600x1200.

Integrated TV Encoder

Provides world-class TV-out functionality up to 1024x768 resolution.

Integrated Full Hardware MPEG-2 Decoder

Delivers full-frame rate, full-screen MPEG-2 video on your desktop. Requires DVD playback software.

64-Phase Video Scalar

High quality video scaling for DVD and other video to full-screen HDTV resolutions.

.13µ Process Technology

Sophisticated process technology delivers higher performance through faster clock rates.

Architected For Cg

Speeds up content creation so game delvelopes can get their new games out to PC users faster than ever before. New cutting edge special effects can be developed and implemented quicker on state of the art hardware.

Dawn ushered in the dawn of cinematic shading with the introduction of the NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX family of GPUs. Now, her twin sister Dusk shows us what's possible with a GeForce FX 5900 GPU.

An urban, moonlit street is Dusk's stage as she relaxes to music overheard outside a nightclub. She dances to the beat, beckoning the attention of her nocturnal friends of the forest, who join her briefly before flitting off into the night.

Key Features:

Realistic Skin: Dusk's skin is a custom fragment shader that includes shadowing, diffuse and specular color, bump, and a simple subsurface scattering effect.

Realistic Hair: Her hair is comprised entirely of geometry and is only possible due to the high-performance vertex shaders of the GeForce FX 5900 GPUs. Together, vertex and fragment shaders allow for an anisotropic lighting model, resulting in extremely realistic hair.

Download The NVIDIA Dusk Demo

Vulcan, the god of fire, toils at his anvil forging the metals of the earth when one of the sparks of his forge takes flight. Angered, Vulcan attempts to crush the annoyance but it's too quick. He chases it all around his sanctuary to no avail, as he's too slow to vanquish the pest. Tired and dizzy, Vulcan makes one last attempt to get rid of the pest, but he's overcome with fatigue and he fizzles. Experience the heat of Vulcan's frustration first-hand with a GeForce FX 5900 GPU powering your PC.

Key Features:

Realistic fire, smoke, and glow using volumetric texturing and render-to-texture techniques

Next-generation lighting and shadowing with multiple light sources

Skin shader using true Blinn phong shader

Download The NVIDIA Vulcan Demo

Welcome to our enchanted forest – a place where virtual meets reality. This is the domain of the prettiest pixie to ever grace the computer screen. While her existence may only be virtual, the life-like effects made possible with GeForce FX will convince you that she is real. She is brought to life through the magic of complex vertex shaders that provide for both skeletal (body) animation, and blend shape (facial) animation. But, what truly sets her apart from those cyborg computer characters that once passed for living creatures is skin -beautiful human skin. She is covered with an intricate skin shader that accounts for all the subtleties of human skin. This includes consideration of the oilyness of the skin surface, the amount of blood that runs just beneath the surface, and surface highlights as light hits her skin at glancing angles. In her enchanted world, it's unclear where fantasy ends and reality begins.

Key Features:

Vertex Shaders - Two key vertex shaders drive her motion: a branching skeletal shader where the body mesh is driven by several different combinations of internal bones, and a blend shape shader that deforms her face based on control parameters. Skin Shader - This uses a complex combination of color maps, specular maps, and blood characteristic maps to produce very realistic skin. In addition, lighting subtleties are accomplished with a series of cube maps for diffuse specular and "highlight" skin lighting.

Wing Shader - A translucent shader is used for the wings. This modifies both the reflected color off the wings as well as the amount of light passing through the wings based on viewing and light angles.

Download The NVIDIA Dawn Demo