More news on those interested in G71

[Cookie Monster]

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The 2006 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE), like part of CES, is also running at The Sands Expo Centre in Las Vegas, and the actresses in attendance sure seem to know how to wet a Willy; which is why I've insisted little Willy continues trying to extend his inquiries in the IT halls, and leave me to my own devices and get the low down with some sweet girl-on-girl chat action.

From between the strip, I've managed to pluck a few juicy green HEXUS.beans from these femme fatale's, who it seems know how to use their well developed charms to stay on top of the comings from Silicon Valley.

Reading on, I'm sure you'll agree that industry deep-throats seem to love to dribble the beans to these gals, and having done so, the girls love to share with Fanny.

One young gal confirmed to me that, as of the time of writing, key NVIDIA customers believe that NVIDIA's next generation, and first 90nm part, codenamed G71 is to be launched as GeForce 7900.

It would seem that a few key NVIDIA partners have already been sampled with GeForce 7900, and they're currently working towards a hard launch planned for CeBIT 2006 in Hannover, Germany (9th through to 15th March), and if so, our money's would be on watching for announcements from NVIDIA, ASUSTeK, eVGA, XFX and possibly MSI, between the 9th and 11th March.

Unlike the launch of its GeForce 7800 GTX, the current plan seems that NVIDIA will launch both the faster GTX and GT variants at the same time.

The flagship single-card product GeForce 7900 GTX is claimed to be a 32 pixel processor part with a core GPU frequency of 700/750 MHz, and should ship with 1.1ns graphics RAM clocked at 800/900MHz.

Pr0n starlets aren't normally noted for their mathematical prowess, so I was surprised to hear gentile chatter in the powder room to the effect that "with some simple math, the new part (GeForce 7900) would only have to run at circa 430MHz to roughly match the performance of the existing top line GeForce 7800 GTX 512". So even with NVIDIA's target core frequency of 700MHz, GeForce 7900 GTX seems set to be handing out some whipping.

The validity of this idle gossip was later confirmed after I pumped a humble partner for a little a bit of meat to go with my beans - the money-shot is that a 700MHz NVIDIA GeForce 7900 is currently coming in at circa 13,000 3DM2K5's on an AMD Athlon 64 FX 60 system.

I'm off to freshen up a little now, but tune back in for some spicy red HEXUS.beans in a very short while...

... in fact so spicy that you'll be left with some shocking red Marks

Im starting to believe that NV is saving the 1.1ns ram for the G71 rather than the GTX 512.

I believe we are gonig to get a monster of a card

 

[mwmorph]

wGreat for us but bad for nvidia bottom line if it's true. this would actually cripple sales of 7800s. They would either have to sell the card at a $1000 msrp/ $900 street price or they will have to vastly undercut 7800gtx prices so that 2 7800gtx costs somewhat less than a G71.

 

[the Chase]

Sweet find!! I wish they were coming sooner but sounds worth waiting for. Do you write script for a living? Quite a colorful read with enough tongue in cheek playing on words to entertain even the most hardcore stick in the mud.

 

[darXoul]

Damn, I hate waiting... It's two months from now. I wanted 7800 GT SLI but now I guess, I'll grab 7900 GT SLI.

BTW, if the new chip is named 7900 GTX, what will be the GeForce 7 series Ultra card? No Ultra this time, I guess.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Originally posted by: the Chase
Sweet find!! I wish they were coming sooner but sounds worth waiting for. Do you write script for a living. Quite a colorful read with enough tongue in cheek playing on words to entertain even the most hardcore stick in the mud.

Thanks for the compliment.

:beer:

 

[RobertR1]

Funny writing style! Had me laughing.

As for the card, WOW! can't wait to see this monster in action!

 

[Genx87]

32 pixel pipelines is an interesting rumor if true.
This card will give the R580 a run for its money.

 

[Cookie Monster]

This is quite a significant refesh, and i wonder if it will have any new features.. possibly HDR plus AA? or even tweaaked AF.

 

[CP5670]

March 9?

Crap.

That's three days after my step-up period ends.

 

[fierydemise]

Nice scores, now can it be delivered in large enough quantities and at a resonable price?

 

[Cookie Monster]

Wait, if this is going to be called 7900GTX.. its going to be single slot?!?
Wonder what the temps are going to be like.

March9 seems pretty far away, but i guess they want to hard launch there product instead of paper launching it around jan/feb.

 

[Drayvn]

But it will be like 1 and half months late tut tut sooo unacceptable

just kidding!

Should be dammmmn good, what the 7900 shows us is that the R580 would probably be around the same area too.

 

[nts]

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
This is quite a significant refesh, and i wonder if it will have any new features.. possibly HDR plus AA? or even tweaaked AF.

HDR+AA would be a huge architectural change so I highly doubt we'll see it. NVIDIA has previously stated that it wont be possible for a couple of years...

Angle Independant AF, possible but again its an architectural change so I don't think it'll make it.

I'm interested to know how many transistors that thing has because the clock speeds are kinda on the high side.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Im guessing 380~ M transistors?

 

[Wentelteefje]

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
... its going to be single slot?!?

I believe it was The Inquirer that stated that nVidia might again adopt a dual slot cooler for its G71...

 

[schtuga]

From what I've picked up here and there,there isn't a lot of info out yet.
But some have said there will be tweaks to the aa and such,but they feel the mem controller is still good enough.

And 380m transistors is the number that is being speculated.

And as for march,they have set a standard for themselves for hardlaunching,add to that 2 card launches,and the same ram that is on the 512 and we could wait till then .I can't see it being later,wouldn't make sense,with the G80 set to hit late summer/early fall, combined with the 580 coming out in late jan/early feb.

 

[TSS]

dont forget that samsung is now massproducing the 1.1ns memory, atleast according to a news post on AT a few weeks back. the 7800GTX 512 is still no where to be seen while the "memory supply issue" should be resolved with the mass production.. so im guessing their hamstering it, it should be available enough.

its all nice and good to dream about, but i think the actual card will be a bit less spectacular... especially since its comming close to rumored R600/G80 specs. i mean, to beat this, the G80 would once need to be clocked higher, and have more pipes. or that unified architecture. and get atleast 16000 in 3dsmark. i just think that whats described there will be one hell of a card, but sound more like a G80 then a G71. save for the release date. personally ill wait and see.

 

[Snooper]

One thing to keep in mind: If the G71 is a 90nm part and the yields are good on TSMC's 90nm process (and it should be. They have been running this process for a while now), then NVidia WANTS everyone to switch to the new G71/G72/G73/G73M parts as soon as possible!

Why? Because they will get significantly more parts per wafer. Even with a larger die size. Which means it will cost them less to make, so more profit at the same price point or they can decrease the price to drive up sales and again, make more money.

I'm going to be upgrading in early February. If the G71 is out and somewhat affordable ($700? $600?), then I will go that round. Otherwise, I think I am going with an EVGA 7800GT of some sort and use the step up program when the G71 does come out. That also helps to spread the video card pain out a bit...

 

[nitromullet]

Damn... If this is true...

The flagship single-card product GeForce 7900 GTX is claimed to be a 32 pixel processor part with a core GPU frequency of 700/750 MHz, and should ship with 1.1ns graphics RAM clocked at 800/900MHz.

Even if this were the exact same core as the 7800GTX (with 24 pipes), this would be a huge increase. Remember that the fastest 256MB GTX'es are clocked at 490 and that the 512MB is clocked 550.

Unlike the launch of its GeForce 7800 GTX, the current plan seems that NVIDIA will launch both the faster GTX and GT variants at the same time.

That's what I wanted to hear... I'm keeping my eye on that. If the 7900GTX comes in at 700-750MHz, the GT should be at least 650MHz - hopefully it will have all 32-pipes as well.

 

[IlllI]

"after I pumped a humble partner for a little a bit of meat to go with my beans "

 

[Wentelteefje]

Originally posted by: nitromullet
That's what I wanted to hear... I'm keeping my eye on that. If the 7900GTX comes in at 700-750MHz, the GT should be at least 650MHz - hopefully it will have all 32-pipes as well.

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IMO, the GT version will only have 24 pipes, but maybe with the clocks the current 7800GTX 512MB has...

 

[schtuga]

Or maybe they will do the good chip bad chip thing and just disable a quad on the gt making it a 28 pipe card.It would still be better than the 78gtx then and not 2 cards with one just clocked higher.

If this statement sounds stupid,it's because I am.

 

[Cookie Monster]

I would think the GT could be a 32 pipe card runing at 550mhz (the PS3s RSX?) with 512/256mb ram.

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: Wentelteefje

Originally posted by: nitromullet
That's what I wanted to hear... I'm keeping my eye on that. If the 7900GTX comes in at 700-750MHz, the GT should be at least 650MHz - hopefully it will have all 32-pipes as well.

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IMO, the GT version will only have 24 pipes, but maybe with the clocks the current 7800GTX 512MB has...

oops (good call)... What about 28-pipes..? I'm guessing that they will be reject GTXes with a quad disabled. You're probably right about them not being 32... I think NV learned their lesson with the 6-series.

 

[Wentelteefje]

Seems like an option too, but doesn't 28 sound weird to you guys? In theory, it should be perfectly possible (just disabling a quad), but in reality... My guess would be 24...