Geforce 7800GTX Confirmed Specs + Picture

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003

Don't be too sure about the clocks. The 6600GT is on the 110nm process, runs at 500MHz, but has only one third of the pipelines to run at that speed. The G70 will generate substantially more heat and consume substantially more power with 24 pipes. I heard its close to 300 million tranny's.

Not to be picky, but I much prefer 'transistors' . What you wrote often means something else 😉 .

Originally posted by: Rollo

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
The only thing which I find striking (shocking) is the ridiculous length of the card. Nvidia has never been one to shy away from a long card, and this continues their tired old tradition. This card looks to be almost double the length of a regular GPU. Sure it needs a lot of power, but I wouldn't be surprised if ATI's next card is significantly shorter (as always).

Nvidia, get with the program!

Apparently you haven't seen the articles about the R520 "master" cards being the longest cards to date due to the space needs for the AMR?

Either way, I could care less about power requirements, card size, motherboard requirements- it's all about what it gives in return.

As I'm not living in the case with the card, it can take up as much room as it likes.

As usual Rollo giving a counterpoint to defend Nvidia, then coming to his senses (realizing ATI hasn't made a production card as long as this yet, and probably won't in the near future) and then declares that he couldn't care less one way or another.

I don't care about what ATI's "master" cards look like - we're talking about production cards here - and I wasn't discussing power requirements (which is, however another sticking point for me). I was pointing out how annoying it is for many/most users when companies release extremely long cards like this, and this G70 is supposedly close to production so I'm miffed that the final length will be even close to this. It's a serious pain putting these things into normal sized cases!

Plus, knowing you've been using SLI at some point, you obviously have a large case with tons of extra room. Most do not have this commodity. Forget about putting one of these cards into a Shuttle PC, btw 😉 .

Originally posted by: ZobarStyl
"GTX"...what happened to GT? I'm so tired of this constant marketing suffix enhancing..."Pro" used to mean the best, now it's "XT PE Double++"..."GT" becomes "GTX"...so on. Just stick with one scheme so I can actually inform customers of what's good and what's not, please! And as for ATi, they've run out of numbers on their current setup, what's R520/600 going to be called? X1800?

Y800 Pro and Y800 XT PE? I agree that the nomenclature has gotten ridiculous. Plus fun tricks like the GeForce 6800 GTS (being slower than a regular GT) to fool consumers further. Not to mention every XX50 ATI card, which is usually slower than the XX00 version or at leat no better (eg 9250, 9550).

Quite frankly, I think there's just too much choice in the video card market.

I think, for example, a 6200, 6600, 6600GT, 6800, 6800GT lineup is fine (that much choice is much appreciated). All of the extra iterations are just pointless (eg the various versions of the 6200, 6800GTS, etc). ATI is even worse, with the short-lived X700 series clogging an already loaded roster with the X300's, X600's, X800 XL/Pro/XT/XT PE .

 

[Creig]

Don't forget about the "SE" edition of video cards that are invariably cut down models of their vanilla parent. I have yet to see any card with the letters "SE" stuck on the end to be worthwhile.

 

[SVT Cobra]

im gonna raise the BS flag on this article till i see more from others...this might be like a 7600 or nothing at all....

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003

Don't be too sure about the clocks. The 6600GT is on the 110nm process, runs at 500MHz, but has only one third of the pipelines to run at that speed. The G70 will generate substantially more heat and consume substantially more power with 24 pipes. I heard its close to 300 million tranny's.

Not to be picky, but I much prefer 'transistors' . What you wrote often means something else 😉 .

Not to be picky? I don't think you can get much more nit-pickish than that. 😀
I hope your kidding. I think we all know that this is a computer hardware forum and not motorhead magazine. 😉

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024

Originally posted by: Rollo

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
The only thing which I find striking (shocking) is the ridiculous length of the card. Nvidia has never been one to shy away from a long card, and this continues their tired old tradition. This card looks to be almost double the length of a regular GPU. Sure it needs a lot of power, but I wouldn't be surprised if ATI's next card is significantly shorter (as always).

Nvidia, get with the program!

Apparently you haven't seen the articles about the R520 "master" cards being the longest cards to date due to the space needs for the AMR?

Either way, I could care less about power requirements, card size, motherboard requirements- it's all about what it gives in return.

As I'm not living in the case with the card, it can take up as much room as it likes.

As usual Rollo giving a counterpoint to defend Nvidia, then coming to his senses (realizing ATI hasn't made a production card as long as this yet, and probably won't in the near future) and then declares that he couldn't care less one way or another.

I don't care about what ATI's "master" cards look like - we're talking about production cards here - and I wasn't discussing power requirements (which is, however another sticking point for me). I was pointing out how annoying it is for many/most users when companies release extremely long cards like this, and this G70 is supposedly close to production so I'm miffed that the final length will be even close to this. It's a serious pain putting these things into normal sized cases!

Plus, knowing you've been using SLI at some point, you obviously have a large case with tons of extra room. Most do not have this commodity. Forget about putting one of these cards into a Shuttle PC, btw 😉 .

I posted this last night.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=31&threadid=1599944&enterthread=y

If those pictures are legit, it would not support the huge master card rumors.

Edit: I linked to my post instead of the actual pictures because Russian Sensation kindly translated the Russian article in the thread. Well... it looks like the site is link is down.

 

[Emultra]

"Transies" = transistors.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: Emultra
"Transies" = transistors.

ok then. Sheesh..

 

[deadseasquirrel]

Originally posted by: Emultra
"Transies" = transistors.

Actually, "transies" = transvestites.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: deadseasquirrel

Originally posted by: Emultra
"Transies" = transistors.

Actually, "transies" = transvestites.

LMAO!!!!

 

[Emultra]

But "trannies", someone said, are transvestites?

Alright, "tranotrons" it is. Make fun of that.

 

[boran]

fer gods sake what is this, abbreviation police ? are you guys afraid to die from RSI while typing transistors trannies doesnt even save much typing work anyways.

Besides the rant, I'd hope that card is a preproduction model or something because that length is definetly not so very good. also I think it's rather logical that they only go for a 24 bit pipeline, the transistor count is already trough the roof as it is. if they are still making it on 110 µ it would be crazy to get 32 pipelines, even with 90 µ it would be hard imho. soon you'll have chips the size of the card pictured.

 

[ddogg]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek


The only thing which I find striking (shocking) is the ridiculous length of the card. Nvidia has never been one to shy away from a long card, and this continues their tired old tradition. This card looks to be almost double the length of a regular GPU. Sure it needs a lot of power, but I wouldn't be surprised if ATI's next card is significantly shorter (as always).

Nvidia, get with the program!

its not goin to be double the length of a regular GPU...just about 2-3cm longer than the 6800U and GT...

 

[ddogg]

EDIT😀eleted

 

[deadseasquirrel]

Originally posted by: boran
fer gods sake what is this, abbreviation police ?

Hey, it's important to distinguish what one means to convey. All these fancy words can get very confusing and can lead to a very embarrassing moment. Like this one time I was gonna join this street gang. They said in order for me to be a member, I had to be a kleptomaniac. And have video proof of it. Well, I confused kleptomanic with necropheliac. Needless to say, my video proof wasn't well-received, and I didn't end up getting into that gang.

 

[aj58]

Originally posted by: ddogg

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek


The only thing which I find striking (shocking) is the ridiculous length of the card. Nvidia has never been one to shy away from a long card, and this continues their tired old tradition. This card looks to be almost double the length of a regular GPU. Sure it needs a lot of power, but I wouldn't be surprised if ATI's next card is significantly shorter (as always).

Nvidia, get with the program!

🙂 Can't Wait :laugh:
its not goin to be double the length of a regular GPU...just about 2-3cm longer than the 6800U and GT...

 

[Acanthus]

fake. Wait for the real card to get the real specs.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003

Don't be too sure about the clocks. The 6600GT is on the 110nm process, runs at 500MHz, but has only one third of the pipelines to run at that speed. The G70 will generate substantially more heat and consume substantially more power with 24 pipes. I heard its close to 300 million tranny's.

Not to be picky, but I much prefer 'transistors' . What you wrote often means something else 😉 .

Not to be picky? I don't think you can get much more nit-pickish than that. 😀
I hope your kidding. I think we all know that this is a computer hardware forum and not motorhead magazine. 😉

Heh, don't blow a gaket there keys, I meant what Emultra said: trannys/trannies sometimes means transvestites, and I really don't want to think of that when reading about GPU's 😉 .

Originally posted by: ddogg

its not goin to be double the length of a regular GPU...just about 2-3cm longer than the 6800U and GT...

Those aren't 'regular' GPU's - those are expensive high-end parts. I mean compared to the 6200's, 6600's and everything from ATI. I consider the 6800's also absurdly long - if ATI can do it then Nvidia should have no problems finding a way to make smaller cards. You can bring in the "SM 3.0/HDR/whatever takes XX Million transistors" argument if you want... we will see what ATI brings to the table next generation, and if they are able to keep their GPU's at a more rational length 😉 .

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
fake. Wait for the real card to get the real specs.

Because you've seen the real card Acanthus? Obviously a healthy dose of skepticism is in order, but how do you know that that card is a fake? Quite likely it is a real card, although obviously just some alpha/beta silicon, not final product.

We'll see how big/small the final cards are in due time; in the meantime, this is what we have to go on...

 

[Insomniak]

Until Nvidia launches the card, I'm not believing anything. Remember when NV40 was an 8x2 card?

 

[Ronin]

Specs are false. That's all I have to say. 🙂 Same crap we saw 2 or so weeks ago that won't go away.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003

Don't be too sure about the clocks. The 6600GT is on the 110nm process, runs at 500MHz, but has only one third of the pipelines to run at that speed. The G70 will generate substantially more heat and consume substantially more power with 24 pipes. I heard its close to 300 million tranny's.

Not to be picky, but I much prefer 'transistors' . What you wrote often means something else 😉 .

Not to be picky? I don't think you can get much more nit-pickish than that. 😀
I hope your kidding. I think we all know that this is a computer hardware forum and not motorhead magazine. 😉

Heh, don't blow a gaket there keys, I meant what Emultra said: trannys/trannies sometimes means transvestites, and I really don't want to think of that when reading about GPU's 😉 .

LOL!!!!!! I was thinking "Transmissions" as in automobiles. Whoa was I waaaaay off base on that one. LMAO.... 🙂

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: Ronin
Specs are false. That's all I have to say. 🙂 Same crap we saw 2 or so weeks ago that won't go away.

I believe Ronin before the 3rd world websites.

 

[Keysplayr]

I still say those specs are accurate. Just not for the GTX. maybe the vanilla 7800.

 

[Mari0Br0s]

the card on the picture is an AGP one....

On my side, I hope it won't use more wattage than the gf6 already use.... the ATI X850 series needs a 300 watts PSU, and the nVidia GF 6800 needs a 480watts PSU!!! I'm tired of changing my PSU!!

 

[xtknight]

OK...so if that pictured card is an AGP one then that's why it doesn't have SLI. But, why would the first model be an AGP one? The 7800 series isn't PCI-E native?! It just seems odd that either an AGP version of the card (AGP chip) or even a bridged version would be the first leaked photo of it.

Jeez I hope this is more than 50% faster...come on...the last generation increased the speed like...at least 200%. 🙁

Well maybe 85% faster for me because I have just a 6800 Non-Ultra.