What's next from ATI and Nvidia?

[Schnieds]

Hey,

I currently have an ATI 9700TX (Dell OEM card) O'Ced to a 9700 regular. I am waiting for the next revision of cards from ATI and Nvidia before upgrading for Doom III and HL2. Does anyone have any information on what ATI and Nvidia have coming up next in terms of card releases?

Thanks!

Schnieds

 

[sickcamry]

I'm wondering the same thing. I was about to buy a Raedon 9800 Pro but was told by several members of this forum to wait until the next batch of video cards come out. But I have no idea what and when that will be.

 

[Schadenfroh]

nv40 and r420 next year

 

[Pete]

Both the NV40 and R420 are probably at least three months out. Your 9700 should hold you till then, though, as it's still a more than decent card. Remember that the new cards will debut at $400+, so don't expect to hold off on a $200 9800/5900 now to get a much better card for the same price then.

 

[Schnieds]

Thanks for all the info...

So are the new cards from ATI and Nvidia going to be completely new, or are they going to be product updates / refreshes from what we have now? If they are going to come out with a whole new line of cards I am thinking that I will wait until next summer and then pick up something from the new line once the price drops on the top of the line stuff to around $250...

Schnieds

 

[Genx87]

I think the NV40 will be completely new. I heard the R420 is a tweaked R360 with a higher clock and possibly a 12X1 pipeline vs the 8X1 the R360 has now.

 

[Evdawg]

well.. i heard the 420 is supposed to be... like the R200 to the R300... completely new design

 

[Pete]

I doubt they'll be completely new, as both companies aren't completely crazy enough to throw away the years of evolutionary work put into their current cards. Both cards should be big improvements over the current high end. Both should feature Pixel and Vertex Shader 3.0 compliance, which will free devs to create even better explosions and rippling water. Current rumors say the NV40 will possibly be a bigger change than the R420, but we'll see what happens. The 5800 was touted as the second coming, and it turned out to be a fluke.

If you want details, Google "NFI GPU RW" and read Uttar's nicely compiled and rated list of rumors.

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: sickcamry
I'm wondering the same thing. I was about to buy a Raedon 9800 Pro but was told by several members of this forum to wait until the next batch of video cards come out. But I have no idea what and when that will be.

if you can find the Radeon 9800 NP for 200 bucks, i'd get that (if that's your budget).

chances are, the next wave of cards aren't gonna be that much faster. Plus, the newer faster cards always debut in the 400 USD range. I'm pretty confident that the 9800 will still beat the mid level card of ATI.

 

[Pete]

What's interesting is that ATi's Trade Up program is offering a 9800P for $250 + $15 S&H, and it's supposed to come with the HL2 coupon. Not too shabby.

 

[vshah]

unfortunately gpurw stopped updating...its a pity....
-Vivan

 

[matrixwalker]

HMMM, maybe an All in wonder 10000 card with HDTV, component out, 256 megs ddr2, dual dvi, radio tuner, s-video in/out, spdif in/out, and comes with another PCI HDTV tuner card for two HDTV pictures? that'd be a pretty badass card.

 

[Acanthus]

Both companies are promising DOUBLE the performance of their current gen cards.

The NVIDIA and ATi cards are both due around feb/mar.

Anything else you hear beyond these 2 facts is probably speculation.

 

[Bateluer]

Higher core clocks, higher memory clocks, smaller processes, more memory, more pipelines, and, last but not least, features that will not actually be used for another 2 years.