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NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra GDDR-3 Preview While the GeForce FX 5900 XT has been stealing the spotlight in the mainstream segment, NVIDIA has been quietly refining its GeForce FX 5700 Ultra: just recently they began shipping 5700 Ultra boards with GDDR-3 memory. This new memory type boasts lower power consumption and therefore generates less heat, NVIDIA has also bumped the memory clock up to 950MHz. In this article we see how the new GDDR-3-based GeForce FX 5700 Ultra compares to the original as well as RADEON 9600 XT and GeForce FX 5900 XT. To spice things up a bit, we've also included benchmarks with the full retail version of UT 2004. See how the new card fares in this article! more...