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When is the next hideously expensive video card coming out?

Zoinks

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I've been away for a bit, and I don't see any of the usual "My as-yet-unannounced video card will totally crush your as-yet-vaporware video card you [insert ATI, Nvidia, or rarely Matrox here]-loving fanboy freak geek dweeb!" threads.

Is there a next generation out there for ATI or Nvidia? Does it have a name yet?
 

modedepe

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I think nv40 and r420 are supposed to be the next big ones. We don't know when they'll be out but I don't think for a while. Maybe sometime in early 2004.
 

Lonyo

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R360 and NV38 are the speed bumps (similar to the R350), NV40 and R420 are scheduled for most probably early next year, those will be the next big releases (next gen cards)
 

Jeff7181

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Hopefully the NV40 will be more like the launch of the GeForce4 and less like the GeForceFX =)
 

DaveSimmons

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Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Hopefully the NV40 will be more like the launch of the GeForce4 and less like the GeForceFX =)
And hopefully performance will be good enough that nV can take all the cheats and image quality compromises out of the drivers and "win" honestly. We might even get trilinear filtering back for UT2K4.
 

Jeff7181

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That, or convince people that's it's not cheating, and that it's optimization =)