NV35 to launch next week

[woog315]

On a conference call to discuss the company's fiscal first-quarter results, Nvidia Chief Financial Officer Marv Burkett said the company expects revenue to rise 12 percent to 18 percent in the second quarter.

Chief Executive Officer Jen-Hsun Huang said Nvidia will launch its new chip, code-named "NV35," next week, replacing the NV30.

"NV 30 had several well-documented problems and was not a successful product for us," Huang said.

But he said NV35, which has been in production since early this year at the company's main foundry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. , was a superior product.

Michael McConnell, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities, said the NV35 ought to let Nvidia regain a competitive advantage over chief rival ATI Technologies Inc. and their high-end Radeon 9800 Pro product.

"I would say that it does seem like a very competitive pipeline of higher-margin products," McConnell said, adding that he estimated NV35 would provide a 5 percent to 10 percent performance improvement over the ATI chip.


---So it looks like when it launches, it will also be available (been in production since early this year) unlike the NV30.

 

[Glitchny]

we know.... its also E3 next week... kinda makes sense

 

[Deeko]

They were confident that the FX would be great too.

 

[Soulkeeper]

only 5 to 10% hahahaha
bet it'll still lose some benchmarks

 

[bunnyfubbles]

5-10% is still faster, but at what cost? Will it still be unacceptably loud? It'd need to be that rumored "crushing" 50% performance domination for me to begin to even consider putting up with something like that. I hope it isn't loud.

 

[gururu]

5-10%?! What the heck is that? Is it even worth it to release a set of new products that barely surpass the previous set. Have they even given the drivers enough time to mature?
If he aint being conservative with his estimates, that is rather shameful to hear. I'm already beginning to be disappointed.

 

[Jagercola]

<-- Waiting till Monday

 

[Genx87]

Prelim benchmarks are showing the NV35 21% faster in 3dmark03. True that benchmark means squat but....

Anyways it is a cooler, cheaper, and faster design.

No more dustbuster.

 

[Keysplayr]

Even if it was 0% advantage, it would be worth it for Nvidia just to fix the problems and re-release the NV30. It is an awsome GPU with plenty of power. So all they would have to do (and I'm not saying these are small tasks) refine the 13u process so it doesn't get so hot, place a practical active cooling solution in place of the dustbuster, and improve AA and AF.. Thats it!!! People would eat the card up.


Genx, do you have a linky to the 3dmark scores you mentioned?

Keys

 

[Regs]

I agree with keys. Nvidia is still 60% of the video market and it wont take much for them to regain momentum. These companies still have plenty of time to mature these DX9 products since there is no games out there that really need these cards, It's the sad truth.

Just as long the cards are priced competitively, there should be nothing to complain about if the product 'only' has a 5-10% increase.

 

[nRollo]

Even if it was 0% advantage, it would be worth it for Nvidia just to fix the problems and re-release the NV30. It is an awsome GPU with plenty of power. So all they would have to do (and I'm not saying these are small tasks) refine the 13u process so it doesn't get so hot, place a practical active cooling solution in place of the dustbuster, and improve AA and AF.. Thats it!!! People would eat the card up.

<calls Satan in Hell to ask temperature, verifies first snow ever>

Keyplayer and I in total agreement.....

<faints dead away>

 

[Glitchny]

Originally posted by: Genx87
Prelim benchmarks are showing the NV35 21% faster in 3dmark03. True that benchmark means squat but....

Anyways it is a cooler, cheaper, and faster design.

No more dustbuster.

is that still running the "optimized" version of 3dmark or optimized drivers i should say that kinda cheat, or jsut make the card act differently to improve benchmarking scores?

 

[Genx87]

No, it is runnign with the Det 50s. And it sounds like it is running at its highest precision also(FP32).

NV35 Benches

Score was

5900 Ultra with Det 50s 6678
5800 Ultra was like 5500
9800 Pro was like 5400