Nvidia GeForce GTX 200 Feature

3D Graphics features:

· 2nd generation unified architecture
· Up to 240 processor cores1
· Next generation geometry shading and stream out performance
· Next generation dual issue
· Next generation HW scheduler
· NVIDIA GigaThread™ technology with increased number of threads
· 2x registers
· Full support for Microsoft DirectX 10.0 Shader Model 4.0 and OpenGL 2.1 APIs
· Full 128-bit floating point precision through the entire rendering pipeline
· Lumenex™ Engine
· 16× full screen antialiasing
· Transparent multisampling and transparent supersampling
· 16× angle independent anisotropic filtering
· 128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting with antialiasing
· 32-bit per component floating point texture filtering and blending
· Full speed frame buffer blending
· Advanced lossless compression algorithms for color, texture, and z-data
· Support for normal map compression
· Z-cull
· Early-Z


Video features:

· PureVideo HD® Technology2
· Dedicated on-chip video processor
· High-definition H.264, VC-1, MPEG2, and WMV9 decode acceleration
· Blu-ray dual-stream hardware acceleration (supporting HD picture-in-picture playback)
· HDCP capable up to 2560×1600 resolution3
· Advanced spatial-temporal de-interlacing
· Noise Reduction
· Edge Enhancement
· Bad Edit Correction
· Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
· High-quality scaling
· Video color correction
· Microsoft Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) support
· Dynamic Contrast and Tone Enhancements


NVIDIA Technology features:

· NVIDIA 2-/3-way SLI® Technology4
· NVIDIA PhysX™ Technology5
· NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology
· IEEE 754R double precision support


Display features:

· Multi-display support
· Two dual-link DVI outputs for digital flat panel display resolutions up to 2560×1600
· Dual integrated 400 MHz RAMDACs for analog display resolutions up to 2048×1536 at 85 Hz
· Integrated HDTV encoder for analog TV-output (Component/ Composite/S-Video) up to 1080i
resolution
· 10-bit internal display processing
· DisplayPort output support with hardware support for 10-bit per component scanout6
· Incorporates HDMI technology for combine video + audio output
· Underscan/overscan compensation and HW scaling


Interfaces:

· Designed for PCI Express 2.0 x16 (PCI Express 2.0 devices are backwards-compatible with PCI
Express 1.x devices)
· Up to 512-bit GDDR3 memory interface7


Power and Thermal Technology:

· Advanced power and thermal management for optimal acoustics, power, and performance
based on usage
· Dynamic clock and voltage scaling
· Clock gating
· NVIDIA HybridPower™ Technology8


Operating System Support:

· Windows Vista 32/64-bit
· Windows XP / Windows XP 64
· Linux
· FreeBSD x86


Process Technology:

· 1.4 billion transistors in 65nm process technology

Frames Per Second (FPS)

Artikel aku dapat dari Guru 3D. About FPS.

A word about "FPS"

What are we looking for in gaming performance wise? First off, obviously Guru3D tends to think that all games should be played at the best image quality (IQ) possible. There's a dilemma though, IQ often interferes with the performance of a graphics card. We measure this in FPS, the number of frames a graphics card can render per second, the higher it is the more fluently your game will display itself.

A game's frames per second (FPS) is a measured average of a series of tests. That test often is a time demo, a recorded part of the game which is a 1:1 representation of the actual game and its gameplay experience. After forcing the same image quality settings; this time-demo is then used for all graphics cards so that the actual measuring is as objective as can be.

FPS Level

• <30>

• 30 - 40 (average yet very playable)

• 40 - 60 (good gameplay)

• >60 (best possible gameplay)

So if a graphics card barely manages less than 30 FPS, then the game is not very playable, we want to avoid that at all cost.

With 30 FPS up-to roughly 40 FPS you'll be very able to play the game with perhaps a tiny stutter at certain graphically intensive parts. Overall a very enjoyable experience. Match the best possible resolution to this result and you'll have the best possible rendering quality versus resolution, hey you want both of them to be as high as possible.

When a graphics card is doing 60 FPS on average or higher then you can rest assured that the game will likely play extremely smoothly at every point in the game, turn on every possible in-game IQ setting.

Over 100 FPS? You have either a MONSTER graphics card or a very old game.