Items tagged with fx
NVIDIA'S GeForce FX 5950 Ultra NV38 takes flight propelled with a new driver set By David Altavilla October 23, 2003 Let's see, how should we start this one off? We think you deserve to be spared the marketing hype, positioning, branding, buzz and sputter on this launch. "Launch", now there's a marketing word if...
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The Albatron Gigi GeForce FX 5200 Ultra Mainstream With Muscle? By - Tom Laverriere October 28, 2003 When a new OEM emerges in PC Hardware, their products are initially gawked at from afar, as most end users are reluctant to take the plunge into uncharted waters. As soon as a few end users claim good experiences with new hardware, word...
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NVIDIA's GeForce FX 5700 Ultra NVIDIA's immediate answer to the 9600 XT By Robert Maloney October 23rd, 2003 What a difference a week can make. Just a week ago yesterday, when the NDA lifted on the ATi Radeon 9600 XT, we had nothing but praise for the great performance that ATi was offering with their new mainstream solution. ...
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Intoducing the SiS655FX Chipset An Overview of Functionality and Performance By: Jeff Bouton October 2, 2003 By now you all know the drill, Intel or AMD release a new chipset for their processor platform and the other third party manufacturers, like VIA, NVIDIA, ALi, and SiS, are soon to follow. This time around we are talking...
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The Athlon 64 FX-51 Processor AMD Drops the Hammer, On Your Desktop! By, Marco Chiappetta And Dave Altavilla September 23, 2003 AMD'S HECTOR RUIZ WITH AN ATHLON 64 It has been about two years, since AMD first divulged information about their "K8" architecture, also known as the "Hammer", at the Microprocessor Forum in 2001. ...
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The Leadtek WinFast A350 TDH MyViVo & The Abit Siluro FX 5900 OTES Two GeForce FX 5900s Square-Off... By - Marco Chiappetta August 19, 2003 On May 12, NVIDIA formally introduced the NV35 to the public, dubbed it the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra, and enthusiasts began to drool. The original FX-Flow...
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AquaMark3 - GeForce FX 5900 Ultra Vs. Radeon 9800 Pro DX8/DX9 Pixel and Vertex Shader Benchmarking By: Dave Atlavilla September 15, 2003 All of the recent controversy over Valve's Half Life 2 presentations at ATi's Shader Day, relative to NVIDIA's GeForce FX performance (or lack thereof), has prompted many of us here at HotHardware...
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The NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 NV35GL Based Pro Graphics By: Dave Altavilla September 8, 2003 Back in the month of August, we showcased for you two of the current top Pro Graphics cards in the industry, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000 and the ATi FireGL X1. However, at the time we were testing those two cards, NVIDIA was readying...
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The Asus V9950 Ultra - GeForce FX 5900 Ultra The First Single-Slot Ultra to Hit Our Lab... By - Marco Chiappetta September 9, 2003 Recently it seems as though NVIDIA has made a few wrong moves, that got them a ton of bad press. First, there was the whole 3DMark03 situation. Then came the Unreal Tournament 2003 filtering "bug". These...
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The NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000 And The ATi FireGL X1 Professional Graphics Solutions Do Battle By: Dave Altavilla August 20, 2003 Professional Graphics Cards are sort of an oddity to us here at HotHardware.com. Admittedly, we don't get to tinker enough in this area, since frankly the market that is served by these products...
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Gigabyte's GA-8S648FX Motherboard Bridging the gap with the SiS 648FX "Burned" in by Robert Maloney August 13th, 2003 A lot of hype and controversy has surrounded Intel's latest chipsets, the i865 Springdale and the i875 Canterwood, and they are proving to be very capable solutions...
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The MSI GeForce FX5200 TDR128 A Budget Card with a Little Extra By: Jeff Bouton June 3rd, 2003 If there is one thing that is certain, it's that there is no other channel of the PC hardware industry more heated in competition and embroiled in controversy than the graphics sector. This is a fierce market consumed with debates over...
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Battle Of The 256MB Graphics Cards Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB Vs. GeForce FX 5900 Ultra ATi's Catalyst 3.4 Drivers and 256MB R9800 Pro Vs. The New NVIDIA Flagship By - Dave Altavilla May 20, 2003 On May 12th we showcased our review of NVIDIA's follow-on product to the NV30, the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra, based on NVIDIA's NV35 core. ...
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The GeForce FX 5900 Ultra A Preview And Performance Analysis With NVIDIA's New Killer By - Dave Altavilla May 12, 2003 Here we are again, with another installment of my pixel is faster than yours. Why is it that Graphics Cards create so much buzz in the PC Enthusiast market? Perhaps it's because Processors, Motherboards,...
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GeForce FX Go 5200 and 5600 Mobile GPUs NVIDIA's New Mobile FX Offering Unveiled By - Dave Altavilla March 13, 2003 The PC Graphics Industry certainly has been heating up over the past few weeks, to say the least. NVIDIA and ATi alone are making coverage, of their new technologies for the desktop alone, a full time job. In addition however,...
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GeForce FX 5200 Ultra Performance Analysis Detailed Benchmarks With NVIDIA's Value Gaming Card By - Marco Chiappetta and Dave Altavilla March 12, 2003 Last week's Game Developers Conference was pumped up with lots of hype and excitement, regarding not only the software behind next generation game engines, but also the hardware that will power...
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It's Official! NVIDIA's NV30 is Now the GeForce FX! Will we soon be crowning a new 3D King, again? By - Marco Chiappetta November 18, 2002 Virtually all of the companies actively producing 3D chipsets today, have been working toward one goal, to deliver a product that can render interactive, cinematic quality 3D images, in real-time...
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The GeForce FX 5200 & 5600 Debut! The NV34 and NV31 Officially Unveiled By - Marco Chiappetta March 6, 2003 In November '02, during COMDEX in Las Vegas, NVIDIA introduced their eagerly anticipated GeForce FX GPU, formerly codenamed NV30. The high-end GeForce FX part on display at COMDEX, was NVIDIA's answer to ATi's DirectX9 compliant...
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NVIDIA's GeForce FX Ultra A Pre-Production Showcase By - Dave Atlavilla January 27, 2003 The wait for NVIDIA's new GeForce has been almost an eternity it seems. Since their initial hints at their next generation technology, back in June, there has been much speculation and rumor milling with regards to the specifics of the retail board...
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OK folks! Listen up! We've got some great new breaking news for you here! Today we had a little chat with Brian Burke PR-SupaFly-Man of 3dfx! Check it... Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to speak with the us. We'll let you get back to more critical tasks ASAP. We Voodoo 3 Freaks wouldn't want to take you off the...
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The VSA-100 - Voodoo4 & 5 Dispelling The Myth A discussion with 3dfx Interactive Thanks for stopping by folks. Tonight, we decided to have a little chat with our friends at 3dfx Interactive, Brian Burke P.R. Manager and Peter Wicher, Director of Product Marketing. It seems there has been some fairly serious debate...
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Setting Standards In 3D Graphics THE Technology Summit Report! - July 30, 1999 So how is that for fan fare?! The good folks at 3dfx invited us to their Super-Top-Secret Technology Summit on Tuesday, July 27th. Several Webmasters and Technical Writers from various web sites were invited down to this exclusive little party inside the...
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