NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Graphics Card

Introducing GeForce PCX: Performance-Class PCI Express GPUs

Dominate your games with the power of the NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX and GeForce PCX performance-class GPUs. Powered by advanced NVIDIA technologies including the CineFX™ 2.0 engine, UltraShadow™ technology, and the ForceWare™ unified software environment, the GeForce FX and GeForce PCX performance-class GPUs deliver high-performance cinematic gaming, unmatched features, rock-solid stability, and compatibility with next-generation games.

NVIDIA Unveils Blazingly Fast New GeForce FX Graphics Chips

GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and GeForce FX 5700 Ultra Set New Performance Standard for This Holiday Season’s Next-Generation Games

SANTA CLARA, CA—OCTOBER 23, 2003—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today introduced the NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX 5950 Ultra and the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 series of graphics processing units (GPUs), delivering unprecedented graphics performance levels to the enthusiast and mainstream markets.   In conjunction with the Company’s new ForceWare™ release 50 graphics driver, these products are engineered to deliver unmatched image quality and ultra-high performance, cinematic graphics for the hottest new PC games.

“With exciting new titles like Call of Duty™, Deus Ex: Invisible War™, Halo™, XIII, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004®, and Unreal Tournament™ 2004, this Christmas promises to be a dream for PC gamers,” stated Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of marketing at NVIDIA. “In addition to being the perfect stocking stuffers to complement this new round of titles, the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and GeForce FX 5700 Ultra GPUs are architected to be the graphics processors of choice for the next generation of highly anticipated cinematic titles like Doom™3 and Half Life™2.”

The new GeForce FX 5950 Ultra is the fastest GPU in the Company’s history. Manufactured using 0.13 micron process technology at TSMC, this new GPU combines extremely fast clock rates with a 256-bit memory bus. Designed to deliver cinematic-quality graphics and studio-quality color, the GeForce FX GPUs are the only full 128-bit precision computation GPUs in the industry. In addition, the GeForce FX 5950 and 5700 GPUs feature the NVIDIA CineFX™ 2.0 engine with NVIDIA UltraShadow™ technology, designed to improve the shader power that enables more complex effects, and to accelerate the rendering of lighting and shadows.

The NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra GPU is the first produced in 0.13 micron at the IBM foundry in East Fishkill, NY.  The GeForce FX 5700 series delivers an enthusiast feature set at a mainstream price to enable next-generation gaming for the masses.  With the GeForce FX 5700 gamers can enjoy unbeatable DirectX 9.0 performance at a mainstream price.

Providing a host of complementary software, the NVIDIA ForceWare unified software environment (USE) unleashes the full power and features of NVIDIA’s desktop, platform, mobile, and multimedia products. Delivering a proven record of compatibility, reliability, and stability with the widest range of games and applications, ForceWare ensures an unparalleled out-of-box experience for every end user by providing:

• Industry-leading features for graphics, audio, video, and communications;
• One driver for all products: the NVIDIA unified driver architecture (UDA);
• Continual performance and feature updates over the life of the product.

In addition, NVIDIA Forceware supports the latest OpenGL® and Microsoft DirectX 9.0 feature sets to ensure unmatched visual quality and mesmerizing 3D graphics.

For details on where to buy GeForce FX-based graphics cards, visit the NVIDIA Web site at http://www.nvidia.com/content/wheretobuy/consumer.asp.

SANTA CLARA, CA—OCTOBER 23, 2003—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today announced that the Company’s new NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX 5700 Ultra and GeForce FX 5950 Ultra graphics processing units (GPUs) are available beginning October 26th, 2003—from leading add-in-card and PC partners worldwide.

“The simultaneous introduction and availability of the GeForce FX 5700 Ultra and GeForce FX 5950 Ultra is an unprecedented achievement in the graphics industry,” said Jeff Fisher executive vice president of worldwide sales at NVIDIA. “With the GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, GeForce FX 5700 Ultra, and the GeForce FX 5200 Ultra, NVIDIA has the premier GPU in every product segment, just in time for holiday shopping.”

Leading PC providers, who have turned to the NVIDIA GeForce FX product family to drive their customer’s cinematic computing experiences, include: ABS PC, Alienware, Falcon Northwest, Polywell Computers, Velocity Micro, and VoodooPC.

“NVIDIA has the best track record of any graphics company for rock solid drivers, the best performance, the most headroom for enthusiasts to push their cards and the best customer service,” stated Kelt Reeves, President of Falcon Northwest.

Add-in cards based on the GeForce FX family of GPUs are available from the world’s leading add-in card manufacturers, including: AOpen, Ask, ASUS Computer International, BFG Technologies, Inc., Creative Labs, eVGA.com Corporation, Gainward Co., Ltd., Gigabyte Technology, Co., Ltd., Leadtek Research, Inc., MSI, Pine XFX, and PNY Technologies, Inc.

For details on where to buy GeForce FX-based graphics cards, visit the NVIDIA Web site at http://www.nvidia.com/content/wheretobuy/consumer.asp.