NVIDIA Unveils New GeForce FX Graphics Chips

NVIDIA Unveils Blazingly Fast New GeForce FX 5950 Ultra And GeForce FX 5700 Ultra Graphics Chips
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and GeForce FX 5700 Ultra Set New Performance Standard for This Holiday Season’s Next-Generation Games

LONDON - OCTOBER 23rd, 2003 - NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today introduced the NVIDIA® GeForce(tm) FX 5950 Ultra and the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 series of graphics processing units (GPUs), delivering unprecedented graphics performance levels to the enthusiast and mainstream markets. In conjunction with the company’s new ForceWare(tm) release 50 graphics driver, these products are engineered to deliver unmatched image quality and ultra-high performance, cinematic graphics for the hottest new PC games.

"With exciting new titles like Call of Duty(tm), Deus Ex: Invisible War(tm), Halo(tm), XIII, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004® and Unreal Tournament(tm) 2004, this Christmas promises to be a dream for PC gamers," stated Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of marketing at NVIDIA. "In addition to being the perfect stocking stuffers to complement this new round of titles, the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and GeForce FX 5700 Ultra GPUs are architected to be the graphics processors of choice for the next generation of highly anticipated cinematic titles like Doom(tm)3 and Half Life(tm)2."

The new GeForce FX 5950 Ultra is the fastest GPU in the company’s history. Manufactured using 0.13 micron process technology at TSMC, this new GPU combines extremely fast clock rates with a 256-bit memory bus. Designed to deliver cinematic-quality graphics and studio-quality colour, the GeForce FX GPUs are the only full 128-bit precision computation GPUs in the industry. In addition, the GeForce FX 5950 and 5700 GPUs feature the NVIDIA CineFX(tm) 2.0 engine with NVIDIA UltraShadow(tm) technology, designed to improve the shader power that enables more complex effects and to accelerate the rendering of lighting and shadows.

The NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra GPU is the first produced in 0.13 micron at the IBM foundry in East Fishkill, NY. The GeForce FX 5700 series delivers an enthusiast feature set at a mainstream price to enable next-generation gaming for the masses. With the GeForce FX 5700 gamers can enjoy unbeatable DirectX 9.0 performance at a mainstream price.

Providing a host of complementary software, the NVIDIA ForceWare unified software environment (USE) unleashes the full power and features of NVIDIA’s desktop, platform, mobile and multimedia products. Delivering a proven record of compatibility, reliability and stability with the widest range of games and applications, ForceWare ensures an unparalleled out-of-box experience for every end user by providing:
· Industry-leading features for graphics, audio, video and communications;
· One driver for all products: the NVIDIA unified driver architecture (UDA);
· Continual performance and feature updates over the life of the product.

In addition, NVIDIA Forceware supports the latest OpenGL® and Microsoft DirectX 9.0 feature sets to ensure unparalelled visual quality and mesmerising 3D graphics.

For details on where to buy GeForce FX-based graphics cards, visit the NVIDIA Web site at
http://www.nvidia.co.uk or http://www.nvidia.com/content/wheretobuy/consumer.asp