Any word on when nVidia's next card is coming out?

[dandragonrage]

Originally posted by: Aflac

Originally posted by: fire400

Originally posted by: BFG10K

the R600 will be a akin to the woeful geforce FX

I would disagree that the R600 is a GeForce FX. Barring driver issues it's generally pretty close to a 8800 GTS, sometimes being faster. Also it doesn't seem to do too badly in DX10 compare to the competition and its price is very attractive.

It's late but it doesn't have atrocious performance in modern games like the FX series did.

yah, look at the radeon 2900, it's terrible compared to a geforce 8800

No it's not.

Yes, it is.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Originally posted by: lopri

That's a pretty big gap there and I still don't understand why X2900 takes such a big toll by AA. (Is there any 'official' explanation?)

R600 did not put AA hardware on their ROPs meaning that all the AA was being perfomed on the shaders i.e shader AA. Shader AA has a more pronounced hit than your traditional method of doing AA. This is why even with new drivers, AA performance will NEVER be fixed. The irony is that G80 can do shader AA as well as traditional AA 9through AA resolve in the ROPs). Another sad fact is that G80 loses about 25% performance when performing shader AA compared to R600s 30%.

On Topic: At this point I gave up on the 'refresh' of G80. We're already heading towards end of July, and NV stated that G92 will debut around November time-frame. (In a share holders' meeting) Since there hasn't been any 'leak' regarding G81 around the web, that leaves about 3 months of window for NV to introduce/sell new SKUs. I don't think NV will mess up the price hierarchy, when 8800 GTX/GTS are selling well. It's possible, however, that they could make 7900 GS/GTO type of SKUs (of which the main purpose would be to get rid of G80 inventory) just before or after the launch of G92. It looks like the 8800 GTX will be the first card in a long, long time that will maintain its market value from its debut till its replacement arrives.

QFT. Good post.