nvidia's future, NV20 (mainstream). what about Value? and its name?

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Lifer
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I am waiting to see a NV20 "MX", something that replaces GF2 MX.
and what will NV20 called? Geforce3?

anyone got info on that?
 

BenSkywalker

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Oct 9, 1999
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nVidia has already stated that the GF2MX will be their value part for the forseeable future. By the sounds of it, it could be '02 before we see a NV2X based part taking up the value segment.

With their entering the mobo chipset market, they seem to be focusing their low end efforts in that area at this time, moving the MX to an embedded option where it can very easily be the dominant player and give mobo manufacturers a clear cut choice if they are looking for performance between VIA's S3 based options and Intel's i810.

I would expect a more value oriented NV2X board to make an appearnace in Q2 '01, but probably in the ~$200 range instead of the ~$100 space that the GF2MX currently holds. We may see a clock boost to the MX line of boards, including faster memory to distance itself even further from its' cometitors, but unless ATi moves the Radeon to embedded applications in a timely manner nVidia doesn't have much motivation to come up with a higher performance low end solution.
 

Rudee

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I guarantee you if you aren't happy with the $500 pricetag of the GeForce 2 Ultra, then you certainly won't be happy with the pricetag of the NV20 Geforce 3. It will be $400 minimum.
 

Rent

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I hope the prices won't ever go as high as they are now. This should be a stopping point for the prices as anything above 350 is completely unacceptable...
 

Shazam

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With the arrival of a more powerful chipset, it is only fitting that the name go up one letter in the alphabet.

We will soon have the HeForce - Master of the Universe.
 

Fozzie

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I think nVidia wants to eventually have a product line running the gamut from high-end professional to high-end hardcore gamers to super low cost embedded solutions. And thats just in the PC market. Don't expect to see $500 video cards disappear anytime soon, but that doesn't mean $200 video cards are just going to disappear either.

To be fair though the cost of creating and making the video chip is increasing dramatically. The NV20 will be what? 50-55 Million transistors? Thats larger then a Pentium 4! Just like proccessors, you have $600 1.1GHz Tbirds and $60-90 Duron/Celerons.