NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Graphics Card

Overview

Cinematic Computing for Every User

Now Including GeForce PCX: The Industry’s First Top-to-Bottom Family of PCI Express GPUs

The top-to-bottom family of NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX GPUs provide both high-performance gaming for enthusiasts and best-in-class features for mainstream users. Whether you’re a bleeding-edge gamer who desires the most advanced gaming technology available, or a PC user in search of the perfect combination of power, performance, and value–GeForce FX solutions deliver.

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.

New NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 GPU Enables a New Class of Enthusiast Gaming PCs

Blazing Graphics Power and an Unmatched Feature Set to Be Delivered by the World’s Leading Extreme Performance PC System Builders

SANTA CLARA, CA—MAY 12, 2003—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today announced that the NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX 5900 Ultra graphics processing unit (GPU) has quickly become the GPU of choice among system builders who build extreme performance PCs for the gaming enthusiasts’ market.  By powering the hottest new games, the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra transforms the PC into a high-speed gaming platform.  With its industry-leading performance and unmatched cinematic feature set, this new GPU—from the unambiguous technology leader in 3D graphics—has accelerated the evolution of PC gaming.

“In order to play today and tomorrow’s hottest PC games—users need to have the hottest hardware on the market,” said Frank Azor executive vice president at Alienware.  “The NVIDIA GeForce FX series of GPUs is that hardware. The GeForce FX 5900 Ultra is the GPU for gamers worldwide.”

The GeForce FX 5900 Ultra will be available in June from the major gaming enthusiast PC builders, including:  4MBO, Alienware, Falcon Northwest, and VoodooPC.

“Our partners know that they must configure their systems with the fastest GPU on the market if they want to have the fastest PC,” said Jeff Fisher, executive vice president of worldwide sales at NVIDIA.  “The GeForce FX 5900 Ultra GPU gives them the horsepower to capture the performance speed crown and leave the competition in the dust.”

“By combining the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra with the NVIDIA nForce™2 platform processors, the VoodooPC Luxury F-Class delivers the most realistic gaming experience ever,” said Rahul Sood, president at VoodooPC.   “VoodooPC will use this potent combination to debut one of the world’s fastest desktop PCs at E3 this year.”

Introduced today, the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 series features a new 256-bit memory interface; a new NVIDIA® CineFX™ 2.0 engine with second-generation pixel shaders; true 128-bit color precision; full speed, full floating-point precision; and support for the latest Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 and OpenGL® feature sets to ensure great visual quality and mesmerizing graphics.

For more information on the GeForce FX series of GPUs and where you can purchase them, please visit the “Where to Buy” section of the NVIDIA Web site at www.nvidia.com/content/wheretouby/consumer.asp.