Boasting new features such as CineFX 2.0, Intellisample HCT and UltraShadow Technology, nVidia is hoping to blow our socks of with stellar performance and stellar graphics. Can they do it? Right now many of us are unsure since the ATi Radeon 9700 was launched back in September of 2002 and was simply unrivaled in both visual performance and raw horsepower. NVidia countered a few months later with the GeForce FX 5800 series cards, and it soon became evident that NV30 was little if any better than the Radeon 9700 and worse yet, it was very expensive and almost impossible to obtain, and as we now know, the 5800 series cards never really made it to full production and when ATi introduced the Radeon 9800 (R350) the FX 5800 had already put one foot in the grave and another would soon follow.