A peek at the GeForce FX 5200 and 5600
Rolling out DirectX 9 for everyone
TODAY NVIDIA UNVEILS its long-awaited NV31 and NV34 graphics chips, which will bring the GeForce FX name down to price points that most of us can afford in what will hopefully be enough volume to meet demand. For more than a year, the GeForce4 MX and GeForce4 Ti 4200 chips have occupied the mainstream and performance segments of NVIDIA's product catalog, but they're being put to pasture in favor of new additions to the GeForce FX line.
Rolling out DirectX 9 for everyone
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What are the capabilities and limitations of NVIDIA's new NV31 and NV34 graphics chips and the new GeForce FX cards they'll be rolling out on? Do these new products share enough technology with NVIDIA's high-end NV30-based products to be worthy of the GeForce FX name or is NVIDIA still keeping the mainstream a generation behind? Read on to find out.
