![]() ![]() Full versions of “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon”, “Duke Nukem Manhattan Project”, and “Morrowind”.Anyone who has tried to play “Halo” with a 5600 should appreciate having triple the pixel power! In essence, the 5700U is a scaled-down 5950 Ultra and not in the least a hopped up 5600. The 5700U sports 3 vertex shader pipelines compared to just 1 on the 5600/U. While both the 5600/U and 5700U utilize a 128-bit memory interface, the 5700U is the first NVIDIA GPU to be built with IBM’s 0.13-micron manufacturing process. The 5700U features the NV36 core at 475 MHz, 900 MHz DDR2 memory speed, and improved pixel shader performance courtesy of CineFX 2.0. The 5700U is NVIDIA’s attempt to atone for the under whelming 5600/5600U. Our review card is the FX5700 Ultra-TD128 from Micro-Star International (MSI). ![]() And in keeping with tradition, NVIDIA has added the ‘U’ to the product mix, signaling a performance increase and the end of the line for the current FX lineup. After the confusion of the GeForce4 Ti and MX nomenclature, it’s comforting to know that 5200, 5600, 5700, 5800, and 5900 all mean the video card is progressing upwardly. NVIDIA’s FX series of graphics GPU’s marks a welcome return to sensible naming schemes. MSI’s FX5700 Ultra addresses the performance concerns of the FX5600 series and is ready to take on ATi’s 9600XT! ![]()
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