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Item	Nvidia GeForce FX 5900
Release	2003-05-12
Die size
Process	130 nm
Core speed	450 MHz
Transistors	130 M
Price
Ops/s
Pipelines	8x1 or 4x2 (app. dep.)
Memory	DDR425, 256 bit, 27.2 GB/s
AGP	AGP8X
Type	Desktop
Fill rate	3.6 Gtex/s
RAMDAC	2x400 MHz
DirectX	9+
Textures	8
Core	NV35
Triangles/s	315 M
Vertex shaders	2.0+
Pixel shaders	8 x 2.0+
PCI Express

2003-05-12 Nvidia GeForce FX 5900 Successor to NV30 formerly known as NV35 with 4x2 architecture and a 8x1 mode for single texturing. Internal register file twice the size of that of NV30, removing a known bottleneck. NV30 differences from Tom's:

DDR(-I) memory at 425 MHz instead of DDR-II memory at 500 MHz
Memory bus widened from 128 to 256 bits
Memory bandwidth of 27.2 GB\/s (NV35), up from 16 GB\/s (NV30)
GPU clockspeed decreased from 500 MHz to 450 MHz
Ultra versions of the FX 5900 will carry 256 MB RAM
New, much less noisy cooling solution
CineFX gains new "UltraShadow" feature and is now called CineFX 2.0
IntelliSample optimizations, especially color compression, have been improved and renamed IntelliSample HCT (High Compression Technology)
In addition to the FX 5900 Ultra 256 MB ($499 ESP), a standard FX 5900 128 MB ($399 ESP), and a GeForceFX 5900 Value 128 MB ($299 ESP) will also be offered.

Some rumours indicate that the core includes Pixel Shader 3.0 support, even if no drivers support it.