Gigabyte GeForce FX 5700 Ultra Review - PAGE 1

Introduction:

Founded in 1986, Taiwan based Gigabyte quickly became a big player in the motherboard market and has since diversified into video cards, networking solutions and even coolers. On the video card side, Gigabyte is manufacturing cards from both ATi and nVidia (even though these two are competitors). It was last October when we first took a look at the Geforce FX 5700 Ultra (code named NV36). We found the card to be very promising, one of the most solid products Nvidia had released in recent memory. Fast forward three months to today and we take a look at Gigabyte's Geforce FX 5700. The Geforce FX 5700 Ultra is supposed to replace the disappointing FX5600 series as well as compete against the Radeon 9600XT. However Nvidia has muddied the midrange market with the excellent 5900 Non Ultra as well as the derivatives, the 5900 XT and 5900 SE. It comes in very close to the 5700 Ultra price point but packs the architecture of the 5900 Ultra.

Check out the specs of the FX5700 Ultra compared to the FX5900 and ATI 9600XT: