nVidia 'NV38'
This chip is used for GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and PCX 5950.
This chip is used for GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and PCX 5950.
This card is based on nVidia biggest and fastest GeForce FX GPU; the 5950 Ultra.
Leadtek has done a good job on their custom cooling. It cools good and looks quite impressive. Many other companies released a GeForce FX 5950 Ultra so they had to come up with something special and attractive. Cooling, games/software-packs and things like that are often used to make a product more complete. > Read more
This is the GeForce FX with the highest model number, the 5950 Ultra. It does not have the highest clock frequencies (5800 Ultra has 500MHz/500MHz for core/RAM rather than 475MHz/450MHz from the 5950 Ultra) but due to the 256-bit memory bus the 5950 Ultra will be faster.
nVidia took some time to polish the GeForce FX. The 5800 Ultra was expensive to build and used high-clocked DDR-II memory with only an 128-bit memory bus. These things aren't ingredients for a high-end product. With the newer GeForce FX models (5700 and 5900 in all their forms) nVidia flip-chipped the GPU and made an 256-bit memory bus available. nVidia also redesigned the cooling system for the high-end products and came up with FlowFX 2 which is more efficient and less noisy. |