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GeForce FX 5200 Ultra and 5200 GPU Specifications

NVIDIA CINEFX SHADING ARCHITECTURE

  • Support for DX 9.0 pixel shader 2.0+
  • Support for DX 9.0 vertex shader 2.0+
  • Very long pixel programs up to 1024 instructions
  • Very long vertex programs with up to 256 static instructions and up to 65,536 instructions executed before termination
  • Looping and subroutines with up to 256 loops per vertex program
  • Subroutines in shader programs
  • Dynamic flow control
  • Conditional write masking
  • Conditional execution
  • Procedural shading
  • Full instruction set for vertex and pixel programs
  • Z-correct bump mapping
  • Hardware-accelerated shadow effects with shadow buffers
  • Two-sided stencil
  • Programmable matrix palette skinning
  • Keyframe animation
  • Custom lens effects: fish eye, wide angle, fresnel effects, water refraction

HIGH-PERFORMANCE, HIGH-PRECISION 3D RENDERING ENGINE

  • Up to 8 pixels per clock rendering engine
  • 128-bit, studio-quality floating point precision through the entire graphics pipeline
  • Native support for 128-bit floating point, 64-bit floating point and 32-bit integer rendering modes
  • Up to 16 textures per pass
  • Support for sRGB texture format for gamma textures
  • DirectX and S3TC texture compression

HIGH-PERFORMANCE 2D RENDERING ENGINE

  • Optimized for 32-bpp, 24-bpp, 16-bpp, 15-bpp and 8-bpp modes
  • True-color, 64×64 hardware cursor with alpha
  • Multibuffering (double, triple or quad) for smooth animation and video playback

INTELLISAMPLE HCT

  • Blistering-fast antialiasing performance
  • Adaptive texture filtering
  • Fast z-clear

DISPLAY PIPELINE WITH FULL NVIDIA NVIEW CAPABILITIES

  • Dual RAMDACs (up to 400 MHz) for display resolutions up to and including 2048×1536 @ 85Hz
  • Integrated NTSC/PAL TV encoder support resolutions up to 1024×768 without the need for panning with built-in Macrovision copy protection
  • DVD and HDTV-ready MPEG-2 decoding up to 1920×1080i resolutions
  • DVI support for compatibility with nextgeneration flat panel displays with resolutions up to and including 1600×1200
  • NVIDIA® NVRotate™ application for advanced viewing flexibility
  • NVIDIA® NVKeystone™ application for advanced display correction

NVIDIA DIGITAL VIBRANCE CONTROL (DVC) 3.0

  • Image sharpening controls
  • Color controls

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY

  • Support for up to 256MB
  • AGP 8X including Fast Writes and sideband addressing

BROAD OPERATING SYSTEM SUPPORT

  • Windows® XP
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows Me
  • Windows NT® (all)
  • Windows 98, Windows 95
  • Linux compatible

API SUPPORT

  • Complete DirectX support, including DirectX 9.0 and earlier
  • OpenGL 1.5 and earlier support

COMPATIBILITY

  • NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
  • Fully compliant professional OpenGL 1.5 API with NVIDIA extensions, on all Linux and Windows operating systems
  • WHQL-certified for Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 2000
  • Complete Linux Xfree86 drivers