Wow, the NVidia NV30 is going to kick ass.

[glen]

NV30:
400MHz GPU has 8 assembly lines engines, used 0.13 microns craft
512-bit chip structure
800-1000MHz DDR or QDR reveals saves the movement frequency
400MHz Ramdac
The LMA3 speed of light reveals saves the skeleton third generation, supports 128-256MB the board carries reveals saves
Supports DirectX 9 and OpencGl1.3
In 2002 3rd or 4th quarters issues

NV35:

500MHz GPU has 8 assembly lines engines, similarly used 0.13 microns craft
512bit chip structure
1000-1200MHz DDR or QDR reveals saves the movement frequency
400MHz Ramdac
The LMA3 speed of light reveals saves the skeleton third generation, supports 128-256MB the board carries reveals saves
TT & L increase hardware polygon production unit
Supports DirectX 9.1 and OpencGl 2.0
In 2003 first season issue
http://www.dutchgeforce.nl/news.php?action=article&articleid=451

 

[glen]

73 million transistors;
0.13micron manufacturing technology;
450MHz chip clock frequency;
External T&L unit and TT&L unit (True Time and Lighting) implemented in a companion chip (supposedly working at 450MHz);
8 rendering pipelines (about the same amount of pipelines is expected to be implemented in ATI R300);
4 TMUs per pipeline capable of laying up to 8 textures in a single pass (loopback);
4 Vertex Shaders units;
2 Pixel Shaders units;
256bit memory access;
Up to 750MHz DDR memory working frequency;
370MHz RAMDAC;
Quad cache for vertex, primitive and pixel textures;
Dual (dounble-level, like Hyper-Z?) Z-Buffer for better lossless data compression;
12nvx ? new anisotropic filtering mode (12x4=48, 48 texture samples?);
NVAutoShaper prediction unit also responsible for preliminary saving of data samples in caches, which allows operating the data location manually;
NvBlur: API Glide compatibility;
DirectX9.x compatible;
OpenGL 2.0 support.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=1021805892

 

[Beau]

Now if only my motherboard would be as advanced as that.

 

[Electric Amish]

NvBlur

Is that their new 2D??

It'll be nice if all the specs make it onto the released card...

amish

 

[Beau]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish

NvBlur

Is that their new 2D??

HEHEHEHAHAHAHEHEHEHHAHA!

 

[glen]

I am not neutral.
I have a few shares of NVDA.
I think folks here can make better guesses about these cards than I can.
EA, are you connected to any of these cards professionally or financially?

 

[vi edit]

The only card that has my interest is being put out by a private (Read: not publicly traded) company.

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: glen
I am not neutral.
I have a few shares of NVDA.
I think folks here can make better guesses about these cards than I can.
EA, are you connected to any of these cards professionally or financially?

Not neccissarily. I've only owned Matrox cards since my Trident 500k card.

I have friends that are Beta Testers for Matrox.

Other than that, I just love the Matrox visual quality and 2D quality.

Been using my G400 ever since it came out and I'm very glad that there is finally a new Matrox card that will be worthy of an upgrade.

Oh yeah, like vi stated, Matrox is a privately owned company too.

amish

 

[glen]

EA, so if NV improves their 2d quality, you might be interested in one?

 

[GTaudiophile]

What's with ATi being so quiet about R300? No rumors from them? I hope Anand returned with some good dirt on R300 after his trip up to Cananda last weekend...

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: glen
EA, so if NV improves their 2d quality, you might be interested in one?

No, I'll have a Parhelia.

amish

 

[Czar]

very impressive, still I'm going to buy a matrox

 

[rahvin]

External T&L unit and TT&L unit (True Time and Lighting) implemented in a companion chip (supposedly working at 450MHz);

That sounds a LOT like 3dfx's SAGE.

 

[joohang]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
The only card that has my interest is being put out by a private (Read: not publicly traded) company.

What he said.

 

[Instagib]

Originally posted by: Czar
very impressive, still I'm going to buy a matrox

Why?

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
The only card that has my interest is being put out by a private (Read: not publicly traded) company.

You mean Bitboys right? *snicker*

 

[glen]

You mean Bitboys right?

OY!

 

[silverpig]

ATI R300:


bajilihertz processor
a ton of megs of a gabillihertz DDR ram
a bunch of rendering pipes with a few tmus each
(insert random number here) bit memory interface

all for something between $0 and $550000


There's your rumour

 

[SCSIfreek]

With NVDA stocks i can see your point.

--Scsi

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: Instagib

Originally posted by: Czar
very impressive, still I'm going to buy a matrox

Why?

better quality and I dont realy need that sortof a monster speed, I just want something with excelent picture quality, excelent drivers, excelent 2d and good 3d.

and like so many I'm a matrox fanboy