NVidia GeforceFX 5900 Chipset Features
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NVIDIA CINEFX 2.0 Engine
• Advanced pixel shaders deliver 2x the floating-point
shader pixel performance of previous generations
• Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 (DX9) pixel
shader 2.0+
• Support for DX9 vertex shader 2.0+
• Long pixel programs up to 1,024 instructions
• Long vertex programs up to 256 static instructions with
up to 65,536 instructions executed
• Dynamic, conditional execution and flow control
• Architected for Cg and Microsoft HLSL for maximum compatibility
for nextgeneration content
• 128-bit, studio-quality, floating-point precision computation
through the entire rendering pipeline
• Native hardware support for 32 bpp, 64bpp and 128 bpp
rendering modes
• Up to 12 pixel shader operations/clock
• Up to 16 textures per rendering pass
• Support for sRGB texture format for gamma textures
• DirectX and S3TC texture compression
• Optimized for 32-, 24-, 16-, 15- and 8-bpp modes
• True-color, 64x64 hardware cursor alpha
• Multibuffering (double, triple or quad) for smooth animation
and video playback
Intellisample HCT Performance Technology
• Increased visual quality at higher resolutions through
advances in
compression, anisotropic filtering, and antialiasing technology
• Blistering-fast antialiasing and compression performance
• Support for advanced lossless compression algorithms
for both color, texture, and z data at even higher resolutions
and frame rates
• Fast z-clear
UltraShadow Technology
• Accelerates shadow volumes for nextgeneration games
• Accurately maintains shadows while discarding non-useful
information
Advanced Display Pipeline with Full nView Capabilities
• Integrated NTSC/PAL TV encoder supporting resolutions
up to
1024x768 without the need for panning with builtin Macrovision
copy protection
• DVD and HDTV-ready MPEG-2 decoding up to 1920x1080i
resolutions
• Dual, integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for display resolutions
up to and
including 2048x1536@85Hz
• Dual DVO ports for interfacing to external TMDS transmitters
• Internal TV support
• Dual internal TMDS encoders (one single and one Dual
link) able to
drive nextgeneration flat panel displays with resolutions greater
than 1600x1200
• VIP 1.1 interface support for Video-In function
• Microsoft Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) support for multiple
video windows with full video quality and features in each window
Digital Vibrance control (DVC) 3.0
• DVC color controls
• DVC image sharpening controls
Advanced Technology
• AGP 8X including Fast Writes and sideband addressing
• 0.13-micron process technology for higher levels of
integration and higher operating clock speeds
• Advanced thermal management and thermal monitoring
• 40 mmx40 mm, BGA 1309 flip-chip package
Operation Systems and API support
• Windows® XP / 2000 / Me / 98SE
• Complete DirectX support, including DirectX 9.0 and
lower
• Full OpenGL 1.4 and lower
Compatibility
• NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
• Fully compliant professional OpenGL 1.4 API with NVIDIA
extensions, on all Windows operating systems
