High-end graphics chip from Nvidia

Nvidia Corporation, a visual processing solutions vendor,
introduced its GeForce 6800 models of graphics processing units (GPUs) for
high-performance desktop computers. The news series unprecedented on-chip video
processing engine - enabling high-definition video and DVD playback.

Says Jen-Hsun Huang, President and CEO of Nvidia, "In
addition to the raw performance increase, we had two fundamental strategies with
the 6800 models. First was to take programmability to the next level with the
industry’s only GPU with Shader Model 3.0. Second was to extend the reach of
GPUs to the consumer electronics market with a powerful and fully programmable
video processor capable of multiple video formats and ‘prosumer’ level image
processing."

Jen-Hsun Huang GeForce 6 is industry’s only GPU with Shader Model 3.0

The innovative 3D graphics architecture of the GeForce 6800
GPUs offers gaming performance which is charged with eight times the
floating-point shader power, four times the shadow processing power and double
the vertex processing power over last generation’s GeForce FX architecture.

Equipped with the full Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0
support, the GeForce 6 Series was built to deliver ultra-realistic
next-generation DirectX 9 titles. The GeForce 6800 GPUs give developers
unlimited programmability, 32-bit shader precision, displacement mapping,
geometry instancing and other features unique to the GeForce 6 Series.

In addition, it delivers full floating point support
throughout the entire pipeline, GeForce 6800 GPUs vastly improve the quality of
images in motion with floating point filtering. The new rotated-grid anti-aliasing
feature removes jagged edges for incredible image quality and a new 16x
anisotropic filtering mode adds clarity to textures.

GeForce 6800 GPUs have a programmable video processing engine
that support MPEG encode and decode, as well as Windows Media Video 9 (WMV9).

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