Digit-Life has written a long and comprehensive article on a GeForce FX5800 Ultra reference board from nVidia. The article contains many, many, screenshots. Here's a snip from the conclusion:
At last, we managed to test this so long-awaited NVIDIA's solution which is the fastest and most flexible accelerator for today! However, the cards are not available on the market, and it is possible that the GeForce FX 5800 Ultra will never come onto the scene (maybe only GeForce FX 5800 working at lower frequencies and the slower RADEON 9700 PRO).
But the NV30 is a real step toward a very flexible programmable graphics processor. The GeForce FX has its disadvantages which were mentioned above. But they do not lay deep and I suggest that in the next chip versions of the NV3X family (first of all, NV35) the errors of the NV30 will be done away with. I have got information that the NV35 may arrive already in May. Besides, we expecting the junior brothers - NV31/34 which will also include all shader capabilities of the NV3X architecture.
The full analysis is
here.
