Industry-Leading Performance and Cinematic Feature Set Transform the PC into
the Ultimate Gaming Platform
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing
solutions, today unveiled the NVIDIA(R) GeForce(TM) FX 5900 series of graphics
processing units (GPU), the newest high-performance desktop GPU in the
award-winning GeForce FX family. With its industry-leading performance and
unmatched cinematic feature set, this radical new GPU has advanced the state
of PC gaming by transforming the PC into the ultimate gaming platform.
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"We are committed to building the best technology for the game
enthusiast," stated Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO at NVIDIA. "With the
new GeForce FX 5900 series, gamers can experience games at the highest
resolutions with the highest visual quality, and know they have the best
platform for upcoming cinematic applications such as Doom3. The NVIDIA
GeForce FX 5900 is a true testament of our commitment to technology leadership
and to game enthusiasts all over the world."
Industry-recognized influencers validated the Company's performance
claims(1) by reporting blistering results on the latest game benchmarks. When
running one of the industry's highly anticipated benchmarks -- Doom3 from id
Software -- the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra recorded more than a 45%
performance increase over the nearest competitive product.
"NVIDIA's brand new GeForce FX 5900 beats even its latest competition in
all important benchmarks," stated Thomas Pabst, Founder of Tom's Hardware
Guide. "The new 256-bit wide memory interface allows blazing FSAA
performance, while the new driver set provides vast improvements in image
quality, especially with anisotropic filtering."
Anand Lal Shimpi, from AnandTech.com stated, "By combining a 256-bit
memory bus with a more efficient architecture and stable, mature drivers, the
GeForce FX 5900 shifts the balance of power back to NVIDIA."
Based on the radical GeForce FX architecture, the GeForce FX 5900 GPU
features a number of new technologies, including:
-- 0.13um (micron) process for ultra-high clock frequencies
-- NVIDIA compatibility, stability, and reliability
-- NVIDIA(R) CineFX(TM) 2.0 engine with second-generation pixel shaders
-- NVIDIA(R) UltraShadow(TM) technology for accelerated rendering of
lighting and shadows
-- NVIDIA(R) Intellisample(TM) HCT for unprecedented anisotropic filtering
and antialiasing image quality and performance
-- 256-bit memory interface for unprecedented memory bandwidth
In addition, the GeForce FX 5900 GPU features the industry's only true
128-bit color precision, delivering studio-quality color to the PC market.
NVIDIA also supports the latest Microsoft(R) DirectX(R) 9.0 and OpenGL(R)
feature sets to ensure unmatched visual quality and mesmerizing 3D graphics.
The GeForce FX 5900 series is supported by NVIDIA's world-renowned Unified
Driver Architecture (UDA) -- the industry's only true binary-compatible
software architecture, ensuring software compatibility and stability, enabling
the industry's most reliable graphics platform.
The GeForce FX 5900 Ultra will be on display for the first time at the
Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) this week in Los Angeles. Attendees to the
show should visit NVIDIA in booth number 1636, as well as the more than twenty
software partner booths on the show floor, including Activision, Bethesda
Softworks, Disney Interactive, Electronic Arts, Eidos Interactive, Lucas Arts,
Microsoft Games Studio, Ubisoft, and others.
The NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 will be available in June 2003 and be offered
by a record number of partners worldwide. For additional details and a
complete list of partners, log on to http://www.nvidia.com.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation is a market leader in visual computing technology
dedicated to creating products that enhance the interactive experience on
consumer and professional computing platforms. Its graphics and
communications processors have broad market reach and are incorporated into a
wide variety of computing platforms, including consumer digital-media PCs,
enterprise PCs, professional workstations, digital content creation systems,
notebook PCs, military navigation systems and video game consoles. NVIDIA is
headquartered in Santa Clara, California and employs more than 1,500 people
worldwide. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at
http://www.nvidia.com.
Certain statements in this press release, including the statements
relating to the Company's performance expectations for NVIDIA's family of
products and expectations of continued revenue growth, are forward-looking
statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause
results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and
uncertainties include, but are not limited to, manufacturing and other delays
relating to new products, difficulties in the fabrication process and
dependence of the Company on third-party manufacturers, general industry
trends including cyclical trends in the PC and semiconductor industries, the
impact of competitive products and pricing alternatives, market acceptance of
the Company's new products, and the Company's dependence on third-party
developers and publishers. Investors are advised to read the Company's Annual
Report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly those sections entitled
"Certain Business Risks," for a fuller discussion of these and other risks and
uncertainties.
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associated. Features, pricing, availability, and specifications are subject
to change without notice.
(1) The latest benchmarks numbers can be found at
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1821 &
http://www.tomshardware.com. Benchmarks were run on a P4 3.0C, Intel 875P
chipset, 512MB DDR400 running Doom3 at 16x12x32 with 4X AA & 8X Aniso.
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