NV35 x 2

[gururu]

Crazy Talk

Is it time now for Nvidia to CRUSH the competition with a design optimized for 0.13u?

 

[JonnyBlaze]

When do you think NVIDIA NV40 will be announced? I suggest that roughly a year after the NV30 at Comdex Fall 2003 in November. The graphics cards itself will in this case come either in very late December or in early 2004.

thats too far away!

ill be getting a 5900 i think when they drop.

 

[Lonyo]

They're not gonna have double the performance, there's no realistic way IMO.
And just because nVidia are going to release a 0.13u part at the end of the year doesn't mean ATi won't have also designed a new part that will probably be just as good.

And you can't speculate on which out of 2 cards will win when neither is really all that widely known about.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

ATi-vs-nVidia flamefest in three ... two ... one ...

- M4H

 

[JonnyBlaze]

your just full of productive comments today...

 

[Regs]

This topic should die like the rest of the tripe.

 

[Schadenfroh]

IF ati can come out of the blue with the 9700 with inferior financial resources, then cash rich nvidia can come back and do the same thing.

PS judging by how this topic is going on the news part of anandtech, i would expect similar flaming here. in otherwords, all hell is about ot break loose

 

[gururu]

This topic should die like the rest of the tripe.

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

Why would anyone want nVidia to crush ATi? Do you really want to pay $400 for you video cards?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
your just full of productive comments today...

Do I have to illustrate the "Pot, Kettle, Black" thing?

- M4H

 

[canadianpsycho]

Originally posted by: DevilsAdvocate
Why would anyone want nVidia to crush ATi? Do you really want to pay $400 for you video cards?

Isn't anyone buying a 5900 doing that already?

 

[JonnyBlaze]

i just about did too with my 9800.....

 

[Conscript]

looks good...but will have to compete with 9900

 

[Pete]

R400 = R300 x 2.5
NV40 = NV35 x 2

I doubt we'll see either before next spring, given that ATi and nVidia have another clock-bump of current products due out this year, so I'm not paying much attention to the rumors. I may be wrong, obviously.

 

[Corporate Thug]

"twice as fast as the NV35 " eh? i have my doubts

 

[Tab]

Heh, 9900 that sounds funny. Right now I wont be spending $400 on a puny video card. Unless I am able to run Doom at 8xAA/Ansio16x @ 100 FPS However, this hopefully lowers prices. Which is all the really matters!

 

[ctk1981]

I hope to see both companies do well. More competition equals better price for us and better parts.

Im not 100% sure on this, but I heard the R400 was essentially dead? They were going to release a R360 core and a R420 core and they were concentrating on the R500 core now. I hope thats not right, I rather see a kick a$$ R400 core soon than wait through a bunch of clock bumps.

Oh well, only time will tell.

 

[Pete]

The original R400 was apaprently held up by manufacturing tech (PCI Xpress and the actual chip config, combining pixel and vertex shaders, like on the NV40), so it's name was changed to R500, and it will be released later than planned. In its place is a new R400 (also known as R390, R420, and Loci--before the company decided to settle on R400 again, though it's NOT the same as the original R400) that looks to be a suped-up R300/350. Current clues are that it'll be 200M transistors, double that of R300/350. That alone can account for a doubling of performance--if not in plain rendering, then in AF+AA rendering, and possibly in shader-intense rendering.

 

[Vadatajs]

I think that if they regain the speed crown, it won't be until at least the 2nd half of 2004. They may tie by the 2nd Q. They really need to work on image quality though.

 

[Tab]

Originally posted by: Vadatajs
I think that if they regain the speed crown, it won't be until at least the 2nd half of 2004. They may tie by the 2nd Q. They really need to work on image quality though.

Agreed! Espically nvidia.