The New and Improved "G80 Stuff"

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chou10030529

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Its official, ASUS Taiwan gave me a call around 12:00 GMT + 8 which is 00:00 11/8 EST telling me that the suggested retail price is 27990 NTD which equals 852.06 USD and also told me that they are officially on the market now and that there is no more secrets.;)

However the price are killing me! maybe order from US e-tailer and then shipping to Taiwan might be even cheaper? some suggestions thanks!
 

Centurin

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I've been telling you guys that for a week now. GTX will not sell cheap. $650 is MSRP. Add at least 100 bucks onto that an you'll have a good ballpark figure.
 

xelpmoc

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Product pages are going up for the GTX, and the Asus version is looking like $610-630. Far from $750.
 

chou10030529

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Whoo 8800 category webpages going up in the official Asus website now! btw the prices in taiwan is way pass $750
 

Gstanfor

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Just a quick post with two purposes in mind. First confirmation that G80's ROP's do indeed take 4 samples per cycle (all previous ROP's take only 2 samples). This means single cycle 4x AA (or 4x AA for the price of last gen's 2x AA).

Secondly, I want to firmly bury Josh's HDR + AA bogey-man / doubts.

This is taken from the B3D G80 article
it's able to perform 8x multisampling using rotated or jittered subsamples laid over a 4-bit subpixel grid, looping through the ROP taking 4 multisamples per cycle.

It can multisample from all backbuffer formats too, NVIDIA providing full orthogonality, including sampling from pixels maintained in a non-linear colour space or in floating point surface formats. Thus the misunderstood holy grail of "HDR+AA" is achieved by the hardware with no real developer effort.