nVidia has finally officially announced the GeForce FX 5900. This particular chip has the dubious honor of being seen as the lifesaver for the company. The troubled GFX 5800 which nVidia admitted was "not a successful product", caused the company the loss of considerable ground to rivals, ATI. nVidia not only lost the "speed crown" but also their biggest weapon against their Canadian rivals, reliability. The new chip however, promises that the speed crown will return to the company since some tests which have already hit the web suggest that GFX 5900 boards are faster than ATI's Radeon 9800 PRO.
The NVIDIA® GeForce FX 5900 Ultra graphics processing unit (GPU) has already become the GPU of choice among system builders who build extreme performance PCs for the gaming enthusiasts' market. By powering the hottest new games, the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra transforms the PC into a high-speed gaming platform. With its industry-leading performance and unmatched cinematic feature set, this new GPU-from the unambiguous technology leader in 3D graphics-has accelerated the evolution of PC gaming.
In order to play today and tomorrow's hottest PC games-users need to have the hottest hardware on the market, said Frank Azor executive vice president at Alienware. The NVIDIA GeForce FX series of GPUs is that hardware. The GeForce FX 5900 Ultra is the GPU for gamers worldwide.
The GeForce FX 5900 Ultra will be available in June from the major gaming enthusiast PC builders, including: 4MBO, Alienware, Falcon Northwest, and VoodooPC.
Our partners know that they must configure their systems with the fastest GPU on the market if they want to have the fastest PC, said Jeff Fisher, executive vice president of worldwide sales at NVIDIA. The GeForce FX 5900 Ultra GPU gives them the horsepower to capture the performance speed crown and leave the competition in the dust.
By combining the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra with the NVIDIA nForce2 platform processors, the VoodooPC Luxury F-Class delivers the most realistic gaming experience ever, said Rahul Sood, president at VoodooPC. VoodooPC will use this potent combination to debut one of the world's fastest desktop PCs at E3 this year.
Introduced today, the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 series features a new 256-bit memory interface; a new NVIDIA CineFX 2.0 engine with second-generation pixel shaders; true 128-bit color precision; full speed, full floating-point precision; and support for the latest Microsoft DirectX 9.0 and OpenGL feature sets to ensure great visual quality and mesmerizing graphics.
The new chip has already attracted over 60 Add-In Card and OEM Partners. Once again, the NVIDIA high-end GPU has thrilled gamers and performance enthusiasts with unrivaled frame rates and show-stopping special effects, said Jeff Fisher, executive vice president of worldwide sales of NVIDIA Corporation. We are pleased that the industry's finest add-in board partners and most important enthusiast OEMs in the world have joined us in our effort to deliver the hottest graphics to the enthusiast market.
Add-in card partners who will supply graphics cards based on the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra GPU include: AOpen, ASUS Computer International, BFG Technologies, Inc., Creative Labs, eVGA.com Corporation, Gainward Co., Ltd., Leadtek Research, Inc., MSI, PNY Technologies, Inc., and Terratec. In addition to the support of the industry leading retail graphics card suppliers, more than 50 of the top PC OEMs and system builder partners will supply systems featuring GeForce FX 5900-based graphics cards.
The new GeForce FX 5900 series is a gamer's dream, stated Kelt Reeves, Falcon Northwest. This card doesn't wither at high resolutions and crushing antialiasing levels - it excels at them. The GeForce FX 5900 owns the domain in which other cards begin to fail.
