Although the buzz has been around NVIDIA's newest high end introduction in the form of GeForce 6800 Ultra, this still presently accounts for the very high end and NVIDIA vendors are still looking to the FX range to fill in the lower end of the range. GeForce FX 5900 XT's are ostensibly high end chips brought into the mainstream and in this review Beyond3D takes a look at examples from both Galaxy and Gainward.
"Overall the pixel shader results highlight that the 5900XT cards are a better option than the 5700 Ultra for games which have shaders forming a large portion of the rendering workload. When one looks at all of the results from the synthetic tests, it would seem that the XT models are the better option altogether, as most games will be limited by the fill rate and memory bandwidth of the graphics adapter, if it isn't CPU-bound."
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"Overall the pixel shader results highlight that the 5900XT cards are a better option than the 5700 Ultra for games which have shaders forming a large portion of the rendering workload. When one looks at all of the results from the synthetic tests, it would seem that the XT models are the better option altogether, as most games will be limited by the fill rate and memory bandwidth of the graphics adapter, if it isn't CPU-bound."
Read the full review here
