**Next Gen Rumors Thread**

[Drayvn]

Tho thats the statement of pro nVidia ppl.

Hopefully we can get an unbiased statement soon.

*cough cough* Anand?

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Drayvn
Tho thats the statement of pro nVidia ppl.

Hopefully we can get an unbiased statement soon.

*cough cough* Anand?

it's gonna be "awhile"

and unless ATI has their "sli" ready, nVidia will keep the performance crown.

 

[UzairH]

bump

Personally I'm glad that the launch has been delayed to something like fall - just ordered an evga 6800GT PCIe from the egg.

I do hope that when the new cards launch they will have good availability and no price gouging.

 

[Gamingphreek]

Originally posted by: Drayvn
Tho thats the statement of pro nVidia ppl.

Hopefully we can get an unbiased statement soon.

*cough cough* Anand?

Yeah he is a pro Nvidia person yet he has the best benchmarks and reviewing on the web. Additionally in all his testing he uses a 9800Pro.

Get out of my thread.

Well who pushed there card back, was it ATI or Nvidia. If ATI pushed it back it doesn't necessarily mean that Nvidia will match suit. I think we can expect these things in late spring still... more like a hope i guess though.

-Kevin

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek

Originally posted by: Drayvn
Tho thats the statement of pro nVidia ppl.

Hopefully we can get an unbiased statement soon.

*cough cough* Anand?

Yeah he is a pro Nvidia person yet he has the best benchmarks and reviewing on the web. Additionally in all his testing he uses a 9800Pro.

Get out of my thread.

Well who pushed there card back, was it ATI or Nvidia. If ATI pushed it back it doesn't necessarily mean that Nvidia will match suit. I think we can expect these things in late spring still... more like a hope i guess though.

-Kevin

what do you mean "pushed back"?

The r520 is still slated for a (paper)launch in late-May early-June . . . it should be "available" in the Fall when the g70 IS (paper)launched.

 

[Muhadib]

Download this EQ2: Trial of the isle, crank up all the detail settings to the max and send us a fraps recording of the game when you are in a "action situation". I'm betting even an 2 x 6800 Ultra computer can't hold 30+FPS all the time.

My point:
Games like this need hardware that dosen't even exist yet to run in "full quality" mode.

Lets just hope the new stuff has a better price / performance ratio then 2 x 6800 GT.

 

[Gamingphreek]

I highly doubt that an SLI 6800GT/U cannot hold 30fps in anything currently available.

-Kevin

 

[Muhadib]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
I highly doubt that an SLI 6800GT/U cannot hold 30fps in anything currently available.

-Kevin

EQ2's highest settings use over 512MB of texture memory. Last I knew no card has that yet. I know Nvidia has plans for an ultra with 512MB but... I'm guessing haveing 1/2 of what is required will not fly so well. Even with SLI you still only have 2 seprate memory pools of 256MB.

 

[Drayvn]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek

Originally posted by: Drayvn
Tho thats the statement of pro nVidia ppl.

Hopefully we can get an unbiased statement soon.

*cough cough* Anand?

Yeah he is a pro Nvidia person yet he has the best benchmarks and reviewing on the web. Additionally in all his testing he uses a 9800Pro.

Get out of my thread.

Well who pushed there card back, was it ATI or Nvidia. If ATI pushed it back it doesn't necessarily mean that Nvidia will match suit. I think we can expect these things in late spring still... more like a hope i guess though.

-Kevin

What the heck are you talking about?

I think you might have misunderstand the *cough cough* Anand? was refering to Anandtech giving an unbiased review soon, i wasnt saying anything about Anand being a pro nVidia guy

Jeez, read the bloody post properly...

 

[Gamingphreek]

Originally posted by: Drayvn

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek

Originally posted by: Drayvn
Tho thats the statement of pro nVidia ppl.

Hopefully we can get an unbiased statement soon.

*cough cough* Anand?

Yeah he is a pro Nvidia person yet he has the best benchmarks and reviewing on the web. Additionally in all his testing he uses a 9800Pro.

Get out of my thread.

Well who pushed there card back, was it ATI or Nvidia. If ATI pushed it back it doesn't necessarily mean that Nvidia will match suit. I think we can expect these things in late spring still... more like a hope i guess though.

-Kevin

What the heck are you talking about?

I think you might have misunderstand the *cough cough* Anand? was refering to Anandtech giving an unbiased review soon, i wasnt saying anything about Anand being a pro nVidia guy

Jeez, read the bloody post properly...

Damn im really sorry. It didn't seem clear at the time.

SORRY

-Kevin

 

[Drayvn]

NP mate!

 

[UzairH]

bump

This thread should be stickied, otherwise a new next-gen thread will pop up every time there's a slightest bit of news.
OP please update the first post as news gets in.

 

[Gamingphreek]

Originally posted by: UzairH
bump

This thread should be stickied, otherwise a new next-gen thread will pop up every time there's a slightest bit of news.
OP please update the first post as news gets in.

Sorry i haven't been able to update. Im having really bad network problems. I dont lose connection physically yet i cant access anything on the web. The only thing that fixes it is a reboot. Then it works for a while, and stop. Im not sure what is going on.

Sorry for not keeping this as up to date as the driver thread guys... i really do want to.

-Kevin

 

[imported_Ged]

G70/G80 to use 3Dc

:gift:

 

[Drayvn]

Originally posted by: Ged
G70/G80 to use 3Dc

:gift:

Cool, this is all a good thing for us. And everyone was saying that 3Dc was a stupid feature... hmmm.....

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek

Originally posted by: UzairH
bump

This thread should be stickied, otherwise a new next-gen thread will pop up every time there's a slightest bit of news.
OP please update the first post as news gets in.

Sorry i haven't been able to update. Im having really bad network problems. I dont lose connection physically yet i cant access anything on the web. The only thing that fixes it is a reboot. Then it works for a while, and stop. Im not sure what is going on.

Sorry for not keeping this as up to date as the driver thread guys... i really do want to.

-Kevin

dude u need to get rid of the AMD gpu thing....that was an april fools no?:

 

[UzairH]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek

Originally posted by: UzairH
bump

This thread should be stickied, otherwise a new next-gen thread will pop up every time there's a slightest bit of news.
OP please update the first post as news gets in.

Sorry i haven't been able to update. Im having really bad network problems. I dont lose connection physically yet i cant access anything on the web. The only thing that fixes it is a reboot. Then it works for a while, and stop. Im not sure what is going on.

Sorry for not keeping this as up to date as the driver thread guys... i really do want to.

-Kevin

Ouch! :Q Feel for ya man. Having no net connection is very bad for us hardware (and gaming) freaks :brokenheart:

 

[UzairH]

Inq has some rumors on G70: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22917

Going by the max requirement of 225W, I think its safe to say the nvidia is going for the big one and the high-end card will be at least twice as powerful as a 6800 Ultra. Such a high power consumption implies that nvidia will not go for a new 90nm process tech, and their clock speeds must be pretty high.

Makes you wonder what sort of cooling they will have. A full blow water cooler?

Makes me glad I ordered the OCZ Powerstream 520!

Still just rumors though.

 

[imported_humey]

Hope this is new here : http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22917

 

[imported_Ged]

TSMC Vows to Bring Commercial 65nm Products by Year End.

So who wants to place bets:

NVIDIA to use 65nm for G70 or G80?

And... if 65nm is so close, would NVIDIA push 90nm for G70?

If NVIDIA sticks with 110nm refresh, will we see 65nm by Xmas?

I know I'm probably being a little optimistic, but I guess this means 65nm by summer 2006 for GPUs.

Discuss! :evil:

 

[apoppin]

nVidia probably remembers TSMC's promises re: NV38 [dustBuster] . . .
:roll:

i don't think this next gen will be a major die shrink

 

[Gamingphreek]

FInally got around to updating everything. That should be better.

As for 65nm for the G70. I will garauntee you it will not happen. Why? Intel (who possesses the largest/most production plants in the world) is still having problems getting 65nm tech. AMD is a far cry from Intels manf capabilities. ATI and Nvidia have no where near the capacity of either of those. I would say that whatever is after the G70 and R520 (excluding refreshes) will have it.

-Kevin

 

[Drayvn]

Well from what i read the R520 will be 90nm and the G70 will probably be 110nm or something like that.

And remember Gamingphreek AMD has IBM to help them with their manufacturing capabilities. Thats why theyve done so well with 90nm.

 

[RIGorous1]

alot of you guys keep bringing up these inquirer articles, so I'm curious how accurate these articles have been in the past?

Like what is the historical accuracy percentage? 50%? 25% 0?

 

[imported_Ged]

Originally posted by: RIGorous1
alot of you guys keep bringing up these inquirer articles, so I'm curious how accurate these articles have been in the past?

Like what is the historical accuracy percentage? 50%? 25% 0?

I can't give you an exact % of how accurate they are, but the Inq is probably more accurate than most companies want them to be (or just as accurate as companies want them to be. depending on which theories you subscribe to). That being said, The Inq usually presents a couple possibilities and usually one of them is accurate.

Another way to look at it is that lots of respected hardware review sites link to the Inq for news.