news about NV25

YU22

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http://www.nvnews.net/


Rumoured 6 Pixel pipelines

Core freq: 300 MHz.

Memory: 660 MHz. (eff) ~ 10.5 GB/sec BW, assuming they stay with 128-bit data paths.

Supports TwinView

Supports (finally) Hardware iDCT

More powerful T&L unit, to include a second Vertex Shader

Can't find the link, but there's a rumour stating that we can expect Voodoo5 5500-esque Anti-Aliasing feature. The presumption is that the NV25 will bring a Rotated-Grid AA implementation to the table.

.13u Manufacturing process




Cool, but how much will it cost? Are we on way back to 400$ vid-cards?


 

YU22

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I must say that I'm very suprised that this thread got no reply yet...


 

Rand

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<< I must say that I'm very suprised that this thread got no reply yet... >>



Probably because it's about the sixth re-post I've seen thus far ;)
 

Fenix793

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looks sweet but its gonna be really expenisve to use 660mz ram guess ill have to pick up the mx version or somethin
 

YU22

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wtf, I searched on "nv25" because I didn't wanted to make a repost...
 

TunaBoo

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It should be $250 as all current gen Nvidia cards are, it would make sense.

Mmm 128 megs of 330MHz DDR and no ramsinks on the ram. Belch.



<< http://www.nvnews.net/


Rumoured 6 Pixel pipelines

Core freq: 300 MHz.

Memory: 660 MHz. (eff) ~ 10.5 GB/sec BW, assuming they stay with 128-bit data paths.

Supports TwinView

Supports (finally) Hardware iDCT

More powerful T&L unit, to include a second Vertex Shader

Can't find the link, but there's a rumour stating that we can expect Voodoo5 5500-esque Anti-Aliasing feature. The presumption is that the NV25 will bring a Rotated-Grid AA implementation to the table.

.13u Manufacturing process




Cool, but how much will it cost? Are we on way back to 400$ vid-cards?
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Soccerman

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lmao 6 pixel pipelines.. what a joke. that is either a crock of sh!t, or they are attempting to make their card look better rather than perform better (with specifications).

hmm the same might have been said about the ATi card.. oop, except it's beating the Ti500 in some situations.. oh well. anywho, the extra pipelines go to waste, what matters is that RAM IMHO.

unless someone can show me a review of a GF3 with only the core overclocked performing better than the non-overclocked core, with the RAM at default..
 

BD231

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Rumoured 6 Pixel pipelines

KAKA!. Even if they were to use 6 pipelines, I doubt it would put much of a performance jump on the table. The real jumps in performance will come with the implimentation of that secound Vertex shader and memory. Im not sure if im head on or not, but wouldent a secound vertex shader add bandwith needs?, that would explain the extra 2 pipelines but even so, I dont see we they wouldent have put 8 pipelines
 

boran

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the extra memory bandthwidth will keep feeding the Extra pipelines so I think there will be an improvement.

 

damocles

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It all sounds very nice, as long as the final implementation 'actually makes things look nicer'. I don't need 300fps dammit
 

AGodspeed

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Isn't this card really close to whats in teh Xbox?

Supposedly. The XBOX GPU has NV25 technology incorporated into it, the 2nd vertex shader part.
 

vedin

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6*300=1800. 1800/2, at least=900mpixls. POSSIBLE next gen Kyro specs. 250*4=1000mpxls. Period. Nvidia had best come up with some darrrrn good anti-aliasing techniques to beat that kind of power. NV25 will prolly make games look better though. Of course it will cost at least twice as much to do it too.
 

Soccerman

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wwaaaiit a second.. doesn't the Radeon 8500 already have dual vertex shaders? or something like that? or am I totally confused!?

anywho, this NV25 looks to be quite the performer, I'm just hoping the competition can keep up!
 

AGodspeed

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Yep, and I can get most of those features (HydraVision, iDCT) with a ~$150 Radeon 7500!

And for $10 more you can get a GeF3 Ti200. Me thinks that's a little faster. ;)
 

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<< It all sounds very nice, as long as the final implementation 'actually makes things look nicer'. I don't need 300fps dammit >>



this is the problem !!!!!!

No doubt that the gf4, 5 or 6 will be 'fast'.....but i'd rather focus what features regarding image quality will be implemented than counting MHZ.

What about directX8.1/9 support ? This is the real interesting stuff....

(Compare to: Why do people love Athlons even if they're clocked slower ? raw mhz is not everything)