Sponsor: NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) is a market leader in visual computing technology dedicated to creating products that enhance the interactive experience on consumer and professional computing platforms. Its graphics and communications processors have broad market reach and are incorporated into a wide variety of computing platforms, including consumer digital-media PCs, enterprise PCs, professional workstations, digital content creation systems, notebook PCs, military navigation systems and video game consoles. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and employs more than 1,700 people worldwide.
OEMs, add-in-card manufacturers, system builders and consumer electronics companies worldwide choose NVIDIA processors as the core component of their entertainment and business solutions. NVIDIA’s award-winning graphics processors deliver superior performance and crisp visual quality for PC-based applications such as manufacturing, science, e-business, entertainment and education. Its media and communications processors perform highly demanding multimedia processing for broadband connectivity, communications and breakthrough audio capabilities.
At the foundation of NVIDIA products and technology is NVIDIA® ForceWare™, a comprehensive software suite that delivers industry-leading features for graphics, audio, video, communications, storage, and security. NVIDIA ForceWare provides increased productivity, stability, and functionality for all desktop and mobile PCs utilizing NVIDIA GeForce™ graphics hardware and NVIDIA nForce™ platform solutions.
GeForce 6800
The GeForce 6800 GPUs supercharge PC game performance. Featuring groundbreaking technology innovations such as the industry’s first superscalar 16-pipe architecture and support for the world’s fastest DDR3 memory, these revolutionary GPUs arm you with everything you need to tear through your favorite games at unbelievable frame rates. With 8x the floating-point shader power and 2x the vertex processing power over previousgeneration GPUs, the GeForce 6800 GPUs raise the bar for 3D graphics performance. The GeForce 6800 GPUs also feature NVIDIA® UltraShadow™ II technology. Designed to enhance the performance of shadow-intensive games, the second-generation UltraShadow technology delivers 4x the shadow processing power of previous-generation products.
GeForce FX 5950
The NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX GPUs are a top-to-bottom family of cinematic computing solutions for desktop PCs. Delivering insane speeds, ultra-high resolutions, and unmatched visual quality, the GeForce FX GPUs enable a new generation of cinematic gaming effects and are the development platform of choice for developers trying to achieve stunning visualizations and immersive user experiences through their applications. Leveraging the rock-solid, feature-rich NVIDIA® ForceWare™ unified software environment (USE), the GeForce FX GPUs deliver the compatibility and reliability users expect from NVIDIA. In addition, GeForce FX allows developers to create spectacular content quickly and efficiently using only one driver designed for all NVIDIA GPUs. All GeForce FX GPUs offer innovations that affect the entire desktop experience, including:
- Uncompromising 3D graphics power: a wide path to memory for increased throughput, and NVIDIA antialiasing technology for industry-leading performance.
- Engineering excellence: quality and stability of design from the best available process and design techniques.
- A graphics engine that enables the art and science of visual effects: the most stunning gaming effects, rendered in real-time by the NVIDIA CineFX™ engine with full compatibility for the OpenGL® API, and Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 pixel shader 2.0+ and vertex shader 2.0+ programmable shading specifications.
- The gold standard for compatibility and software excellence: software drivers so good that gaming enthusiasts refer to them as "the gold standard," and hardware that runs all applications with rock-solid compatibility, reliability, and blazing performance.
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