What we know about next gen video cards

Czar

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nVidia
NV20 About twice the speed of GeForce2 Ultra, fillrate four times that or something cant remember, Released next christmas

3dfx
Voodoo5 6000, Possibly released by the end of this month or beginning of the next one, speed allmost twice the speed of Voodoo5 5500
Rampage, Based on modified VSA-100 chips called VSA-200, basicly the same chips but with additional buffer called something I cant remmber right now, chips will have external T&L units, so expect to see cards with 2-4 VSA-200 chips and 2-4 T&L units, expected to arrive before Easter next year.
Fear, the first card to use some of the technology 3dfx got from Gigapixel, like Tile Based rendering.

Matrox
G450, it should be out now, just a slightly modified G400 with better Dualhead support, its cheaper than G400.
G800, according to John Carmack this card will solve all memmory bandwith problems by probably having embedded ram and rendering methoods like ATI uses or possibly Tile based rendering, it will be available with two G800 chips also, and then a Marvel version.

ATI
Radeon MAXX, a dual Radeon card, no change.

S3
Who knows, I dont.

Bitboys
First silicon of their Glaze chips are out, release expected before Easter next year. Will have T&L and embedded ram, and other fancy stuff.
 

RagingGuardian

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Umm I think that the core and memory speed on the Radeon Maxx will be increased.

What I do know about all these cards is that they'll cost more than they're worth. Isn't Trident supposed to release a card with 32bit support?
 

Chuffmaster2k

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Bitboys and silicon... Aren't those two words that shouldn't be in the same sentence?

Seriuosly though, if they can produce anything close to what they have been hyping, they will sell quite a few.