Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
NV has done more than just a single die shrink. They've been continuously increasing the clock speeds and number of shaders on their G92-based cards, and power consumption has gone down. They've just been moving the G92 down the market. No real problem with that.
Not really. 8800GTS 512mb used full fledged G92 chips. Increase in clock speeds stopped after the launch of 9800GTX+. They've only gone through 1 die shrink (65nm G92 to 55nm G92b). I hope the RV770 gets nVIDIA a good wake up call because from all the leaked materials, this is going to give a 9800GT/8800GT/GTS240 or whatever a time of its life.
Did you forget about the GTX260 and higher cards? Those started at 65nm too and shrank to 55nm, plus the GTX260 had it's PCB complexity lowered. And nVidia is working on a single-board GTX295 last time I heard. Not to mention the GTX285, fastest single GPU card.
Why do you want a new nVidia card so badly if the new one would perform the same? I mean, the HD4830-HD4850 are around 100$ now, right? The HD4770 will be 100$ too and will offer similar performance. Sure, ATi will get better margins with those, but why would you care? You pay the same. And the card doesn't offer anything new, it's still DX10.1, same architecture. So really, there's nothing new about it. Unless yo want to put it into a HTPC, then yeah, you could be happy.
The 8800GT pulverized everything from ATi but the HD3870x2 back in its days. After the HD4850 launched it was the next lower step from 9800GTX for people wanting an nVidia card (the 9800GTX was a laughable card, starting at 300$! You could get a 8800GTS512 for a third less back then and it performed within 5%!).
Granted, now the 9800GT is more expensive than its performance equivalent from ATi, but that price point is so full, you might as well get a GTS250 and pay probably the same. Hell, you can probably find a really good discount on a 9800GTX+, get the same performance and pay less!
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