What happened to Nvidia's 6 month cycle?

[Blackhawk2]

Is it just me or has the graphics industry slowed down? No announcements at Comdex, no pie in the competitors face...IMO its getting pretty boring. Damn I'll have to bring out my own graphics solution soon, these other guys are just too slow 🙂

 

[Rand]

I wouldnt go so far as to say the graphics industry is "slow". As for NVidia's supposed 6 month product cycle, I doubt any company can consistently maintain that pace.

 

[Blackhawk2]

Thats true about the six month cycle. Though I have a feeling that I won't be impressed with the NV20 when it arrives. Its a gut feeling. NV20 must not be that powerful because I heard from various news sources that the XBox is 8X as powerful, which would make the NV20 pretty weak in my mind.

 

[BigToque]

Blackhawk,

The Xbox uses a NV20 chip from nVidia (the NV20a I believe its called). The Xbox's chip will not be 8x as powerful as the NV20.

 

[Blackhawk2]

From NVnews.net:

<<Checking out the forums I noticed a post by WJMT regarding an article on Microsoft's Xbox. The article covers the proceedings at a seminar at the University of Texas. These statements just blow me away:

Of great interest is the elusive NV2A video card that will run the Xbox's graphics and which has been something of an enigma to gamers. The confusion stems from original specs including the NV25, an NVidia chip set two generations ahead of the GeForce 2, being switch to the more obscure, NV2A. Microsoft has now said that the NV2A is basically the NV25 plus &quot;a little more&quot; and will be 8X faster than the NV20. They are currently suggesting that the NV2A will push out a max of 125M polys/sec and 100M polys/sec sustained, with texturing, etc.>>

Its Microsoft's fault for scaring me with the above sentence 🙂 Is this real?

 

[BigToque]

ah, its the NV2A. Thought it was something like that. I still dont believe that it will be 8x faster than the NV20 chip. There has to be some hype in that chip.

 

[Blackhawk2]

There probably is a lot of hype going on there, I certainly wouldn't put it past them.

 

[kombatmud]

I read somewhere that Microsoft had stated the wrong information in that, or some other press release, and that nVidia stated the X-Box chip would based on the NV-20, and not the NV-25. But seeing as I have no idea where I read it, and obviously can't find where that was, I have no idea how accurate this is. Maybe someone else read it to.