When are the next generation of GPU's going to be out?

[fwtong]

Title says it all.

 

[FearoftheNight]

next spring?

 

[Blackroot]

Yea, i'm guessing around march or april.

 

[TourGuide]

Originally posted by: Blackroot
Yea, i'm guessing around march or april.

 

[GreatDaleness]

will this be a major upgrade or just another performance bump like the 9800 and 9800xt?

 

[TourGuide]

Supposed to be the next gen cards, so it should be a "major" upgrade - whatever that turns out to be.

 

[Jeff7181]

It should be about like GF3 -> GF4... possibly even more difference considering we just moved to DX9 which added a bunch of new effects and technology.

 

[Pete]

Spring, and major. Not really like GF3->GF4, from the sounds of it (which was mainly a clock bump and some minor hardware adds). NV40 is rumored to be 8x2, R420 to be 12x1--big changes. Should be very interesting.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

12x1? I wonder why ATI went that route?

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: DerwenArtos12
12x1? I wonder why ATI went that route?

Probably just a "brute force" way of improving on the R3xx core. Just how ATI found some benefit in going to 8X1 from 4X2, they probably feel 12X1 can be as good as or better than 8X2 in certain situations.

One thing's for sure, both new cards should be nice improvements over what is out there now, and that will be impressive. We've had only marginal improvements (on the whole) ever since the 9700 Pro (R300).

 

[GreatDaleness]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024

We've had only marginal improvements (on the whole) ever since the 9700 Pro (R300).

 

[Soulkeeper]

i can't wait

 

[edmundoab]

should be a 6 months cycle....