Beyond3D has posted a preview on the Reference GeForce FX 5800 Ultra video card
Comparing the different boards with 4X FSAA we can see that the GeForce4 Ti, which has no colour compression abilities, just Z compression, becomes bandwidth limited very quickly. GeForce FX, on the other hand, has plenty of performance left in it, due to its higher bandwidth and compression routines. We can see that at best, the 5800 Ultra is in excess of twice as fast as the GeForce4 with 4X FSAA enabled, and even running at 400/400 it is still twice as fast.Read more
