ASUS V9950 FX 5900 GE 128MB
Although
Asus' 5900 VGA card has been released on the market a long time time ago,
it is still one of the top FX models based on the NV35 GPU currently available.
So, even for comparison reasons
the
V9950 is a good reference. We have in our hands the V9950 FX 5900 Gamer
Edition. Although this card belongs to the previous generation, in this review
you will also be able to see the card's performance in the latest cutting edge
games.
- Specifications
| GPU |
GEFORCE FX 5900 (NV 35) |
| Memory Bus Width |
128MB DDR MEMORY
|
| Memory interface |
256 Bit DDR |
| Memory Type |
BGA DDR2 |
| Core Clock |
400 MHz |
| Memory Clock |
700 Mhz (2x350) |
| Memory Bandwidth |
22.4 GB/sec |
| Pixel FillRate |
3.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Geometry rate |
300 Mtriangles/sec |
| Bus |
8x/4x/2x AGP |
| Processing technology |
0.13µ |
| Output Connections |
VGA + TV + DVI |
| Cooling |
single-slot Fansink |
| 2D Display 32 bit Resolutions & Hz |
640x480@240, 800x600@240, 1024x768@200, 1152x864@170,
1280x1024@150, 1600x1200@100, 1920x1440@75, 2048x1536@60 |
| 3D Maximum resolution |
2048x1536 with 16.7M colors |
| Anisotropic Filtering modes (AF) |
2x/4x/8x |
| Full Scene Anti-Aliasing (FSAA) modes |
1x/2x/4x/6x/8x |
| Dual Display |
Supported |
| Pipelines |
4 |
| Texture units per pixel pipeline |
2 |
| Technologies supported |
- Intellisample HCT is a new compression scheme for
better compression at high resolutions with Anti-Aliasing.
- UltraShadow Technology enables a Higher Quality
and cinematic experience in games
- CineFX 2.0 Engine delivers cinema-quality video
to your PC
- LMA II contains a lossless form of Z-compression, saving memory bandwidth
for higher performance
|
| Pixel Shader Support |
2.0+ |
| Vertex Shader Support |
2.0+ |
| DTV/HDTV decoding |
Supported
|
| System requirements |
The recommended system requirements for the card and
complementary software:
- PC with Pentium 4 / III 450 MHz or AMD Athlon processor with AGP 4x/8x
universal slot
-64MB of system memory
-8x speed CD-ROM drive, DVD playback requires DVD drive
- Windows 2000, 98SE, ME, XP and DirectX 9.0
- Microsoft DirectX 3.0 compatible sound card
|
- 3D Mark detailed specifications
- The chipset
With that golden fan the card looks really nice. Also two golden heatsinks
cover the DDR2 memories.
After removing the peachy fan, the two memory heatsinks and
the heat paste conductor we were able to see the following:
Asus V9950 GeForce 5900 exposed for your eyes only.
Back side
A closer look at the "brain" of the card,
and the memories. Samsung as usual.
As you can see from above, the Asus FX 5900 is equipped
with the following
outputs: one VGA, one DVI, and one video out.
- The package
The software bundle contains several tools: ASUS Tweak (overclocking),
ASUS SmartDoctor (hardware monitoring), ASUS Video Security, Digital VCR and
ASUS
Live Update. The card also includes the ASUS DVD XP v4.0 DVD player software
and the ASUS GameFace for real-time video/audio communication.
The gaming bundle is a great variety of last year's great games and it's consisted
of "Gunmetal" (2003), "Battle Engine Aquila" (2003) and "Delta
Force - Black Hawk Down" (2003). A compact disk with the latest gaming
demos ("Splinter Cell," "Warcraft III," "Big Mutha
Truckers," "Breed," "Colin McRae Rally 3," "Toca
Race Driver") is also included. The greatest variety of software we have
ever seen.
