First G80 "review". More like a preview.

Cookie Monster

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Notes: (note the bad english)

This completely smoke bombs to confuse the opponent and the public until the GeForce 8800 birth.

Driver With the continuous improvements in the G80 DX9 operating speed will be as rapid growth.

Independent RAMDAC away from the GPU itself, makes significantly reduce electromagnetic interference

The mysterious chip is called the NV10, or NVIO? its a seperate chip for ramdac, and to reduce electromagnetic interference caused by the insaely clocked shaders. This allows G80 to maintain a high quality in its output. Its also uses true 10bit color, while it has the ability to output 30bit color depth.

GDDR4 memory of the early heat alarming, but production is not adequate.

Rumours that G80 might have eDRAM with the relevence to th NV10/IO chip.

They say that the quantum physics effects is a technology where the GPU does the physics calculation of the game. (The CPU offloads the work to the GPU)

Performance hit of under 10% when apply AA.

G80 is a 128 unified shader architecture. (It has 128 ALUs noting that its 1D)

 

Dainas

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My god that is a one giagantic hunk(as in large) piece of PCB. I prey that they are able to lighten the design of the top spec cards as the GTS is looking rather unimpressive for its mass(if performance estrimates are anywhere near accurate).
 

moonboy403

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AA performance hit is less than 10% even when 4X AA is enabled!!!!!

that's exciting news!....i'm now itching for a G80 also!!!
 

slash196

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Give it a few months to mature and these cards are going to scream. Summer refresh is going to be sick (and that's when I plan on buying). I'm betting by then they'll have at least shrunk to 80 nm.
 

Cookie Monster

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I agree with you on this one. It seems that all the rumours seem to based off one or another. This all leads to that one leak.