geforce 5? whats next?

[scottrico]

Doom 3 was running on a new ati card at E3, not a 8500.
I heard rummers of a "geforce 5" in august, and I heard there is a new card that powers 3 screens for gaming (one center and one on left and the right).
I have a geforce 3 (original) and the geforce 4 is not calling to me.
What am I going to run my Doom 3 and Ureal Tournament 2003 on?
so, I ask all of you!!

Whaaaaaats Next??


Or is this the year of the X-box and X-box live?

 

[merlocka]

Next up to bat are Matrox Parhelia and ATI R300 (Radeon 9000?)

They should both be released in the summer timeframe.

Matrox is the card you saw which can run 3 screens at once.

R300 should be quite impressive as well.

In the fall look for NV30 which is the next part from nVidia (but won't be called Geforce 5).

What am I going to run my Doom 3 and Ureal Tournament 2003 on?

It would seem that UT2003 will be a bit lighter on video card requirments. I would guess that Radeon 8500 and Geforce3 level hardware will be fairly decent.

Doom3 is a year (perhaps more) away. We can expect another batch of cards out by then.

Moral of the story? Buy stuff for the games you play NOW. Don't try to buy hardware which *might* be the best later.

 

[MithShrike]

Aye couldn't have said it better.

 

[Rand]

nVidia: NV30 (Won't be called GeForce)
ATi: R300
Matrox: Parhelia
3DLabs: P10

Those are the main next-gen graphics chips that'll be competing in the high end gamers market.

 

[AnAndAustin]

Those SiS Xabre cards may (but prob won't) be giving some of the cards a run for their money too!

I'd rec keeping your GF3 until the new cards have been out a while, you should still find it fairly easy to sell it and gain nice perf boost from the new cards which will have had time for good availability, competative pricing and in-depth reviews.

:Q I would expect the NV30 (Why not GF5?) to have 128MB versions at first (256MB will add a lot of cost, sep at high speeds and will take a fair while before games take advantage). The next gen cards will all want to be 512bit and AGP 8x / DirX9 compatible. Better / more intelligent AA and Anisotropic with less perf hit. Hopefully decent VIVO at long last.

 

[MithShrike]

It's not the GF5 because nVidia says it isn't going to be... One guy speculated that it might be called VooDoo now that would be interesting no?

 

[zephyrprime]

They should call it the VoodooForce! That'd be great!

 

[mellondust]

They should call it the VoodooForce! That'd be great!

HaaaHaha!

I like GeDoo personally!