NVIDIA GeForce FX5700 Ultra Review
Final Words
In our previous material regarding comparison of ATI and NVIDIA mid-end video cards ("Comparative test: FX 5600Ultra versus Radeon 9600Pro") the NVIDIA board (built on the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra chip) showed not the best of itself. In fact, the struggle for the Mid-end sector that time was lost by NVIDIA. Of course, by that time NVIDIA hadn't produced the new series of ForceWare drivers which essentially increased the operation speed of FX cards (we'll look into this issue in one of the forthcoming reviews), and 2 revisions of the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra core had been released. Nevertheless, the overall alignment of forces at THAT time was definitely not in favor of NVIDIA.
Today, there is a new leader in the Middle-End sector. NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra beats ATI Radeon 9600XT at most tests. Yes, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra still suffers from "childhood diseases" in some way like poor handling of version 2.0 shaders (which nevertheless does not prevent it from beating ATI at games and applications making active use of these shaders). But, what do we have in terms of prices? The approximate price for FX 5700 Ultra is $240, ATI Radeon 9600XT ~200$, i.e. it's up to you to decide... For now, we can only state NVIDIA's victory in the Middle-End sector and monitor prices for boards built on NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra and ATI Radeon 9600XT chips. If NVIDIA's pricing policy remains as aggressive as it is now toward ATI, then the leadership is going to be undisputable.
The GeForce FX 5700 Ultra video card was presented by nVidia.
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