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GeForce FX 5800 Ultra
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
GeForce FX 5800
GeForce4 Ti4800
Manufacturing process
0.13 micron
0.15 micron
0.13 micron
0.15 micron
Chip technology
256-bit
256-bit
256-bit
256-bit
Transistor count
125 million
110 million
125 million
63 million
Core clock speed.
~500MHz
325MHz
~400MHz
300MHz
Memory clock speed.
500MHz (DDRII=1,000MHz)
310MHz (DDR=620MHz)
400MHz (DDRII=800MHz)
325MHz (DDR=650MHz)
Memory Bus width
128-bit DDRII
256-bit DDR
128-bit DDRII
128-bit DDR
Memory bandwidth.
16GB/sec
19.8GB/sec
12.8GB/sec
10.4GB/sec
Rendering Pixel pipelines.
8
8
8
4
Texture units per pipeline.
1
1
1
2
Textures per Texture unit
16
8
16
4
Theoretical fill rate.
4+Gpixels/sec
2.5+Gpixels/sec
3.2+Gpixels/sec
1.24Gpixels/sec
Vertex shader units.
FP Array
4
FP Array
2
Anti Aliased Fillrate
16+ Billion AA samples/s
15.6 Billion AA samples/s
12.8+ AA samples/s
4.8 Billion AA samples/s
Colour bits per channel
10
10
10
8
AGP 4x/8X
Yes + DX9
Yes + DX9
Yes + DX9
Yes + DX8
Memory type
128/256MB
128/256MB
128/256MB
128MB
Max displays/Ramdacs
2/2
2/2
2/2
2/2
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