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Sep 24th, 2006 at 12:15am

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You've probably all heard of the R600 and G80 graphics cards from ATi and nVidia, well I just found an article on nVidia's G80, kind of an old article, but the specs at the bottom make me cry. Cry

http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=3177


For those of u who don't understand any of the specs at the bottom, its d@m goooooooooooooooooooooooood.....  To me.  To u, i dunno. Tongue
 
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Reply #1 - Sep 24th, 2006 at 2:04am

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You've probably all heard of the R600 and G80 graphics cards from ATi and nVidia, well I just found an article on nVidia's G80, kind of an old article, but the specs at the bottom make me cry. Cry

http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=3177


For those of u who don't understand any of the specs at the bottom, its d@m goooooooooooooooooooooooood.....  To me.  To u, i dunno. Tongue


It would seem to be a little more powerful than my 440!!
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Reply #2 - Sep 24th, 2006 at 2:13am
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Rofl. Some todays cards have faster memory Wink I'd expect the top and cards to have 2.2ghz GDDR4, then later on with the 8950 series maybe like 2.6ghz GDDR4.

Also a DX10 card will easily max out fsX, and a thirst gen DX10 card will easily max it out with mods Wink I doubt them specs are anything real, probably what they were aiming for...
 
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Reply #3 - Sep 25th, 2006 at 7:38am

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It would seem to be a little more powerful than my 440!!
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Just a mite faster of my spanking new 6600gt, after all. Undecided

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Reply #4 - Sep 25th, 2006 at 11:21am

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Striker, you may see your system as damn gooooooood. But to us, that MX 440 can't even support DX9. Roll Eyes Grin
 
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Reply #5 - Sep 25th, 2006 at 12:15pm
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Striker, you may see your system as damn gooooooood. But to us, that MX 440 can't even support DX9. Roll Eyes Grin

I think he means:
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65nm
64 Shader pipelines (Vec4+Scalar)
32 TMU's
32 ROPs
128 Shader Operations per Cycle
800MHz Core
102.4 billion shader ops/sec
512GFLOPs for the shaders
2 Billion triangles/sec
25.6 Gpixels/Gtexels/sec
256-bit 512MB 1.8GHz GDDR4 Memory
57.6 GB/sec Bandwidth (at 1.8GHz)
WGF2.0 Unified Shader

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I expect ATI to out do Nvidia this time, as ATI already has experiance with the Xbox360.
 
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Reply #6 - Sep 25th, 2006 at 12:19pm

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Striker, you may see your system as damn gooooooood. But to us, that MX 440 can't even support DX9. Roll Eyes Grin


My MX 440 runs DX9 perfectly well. It's just a question of upgrading the drivers for XP.
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Reply #7 - Sep 26th, 2006 at 12:40am
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My MX 440 runs DX9 perfectly well. It's just a question of upgrading the drivers for XP.
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Geforce 4s don't support shaders 2 among other things so they aren't fully DX9. All you're loosing is some effects though Wink
 
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Reply #8 - Sep 26th, 2006 at 3:38am

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Ah, thats what ur talking about.  No no, when i said at the bottom, i meant the bottom of the article I found.  Not my sig (otherwise i would've said my sig).
 
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Reply #9 - Sep 26th, 2006 at 3:50am

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Also, Bindoe, nVidia hav expierience with the PlayStation 3, which is much better...  (no offence to MS and their XBox 360)

I think nVidia r gonna pull off DX10 better.  (Besides, SLi is better than Crossfire...)
 
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Reply #10 - Sep 26th, 2006 at 4:18am
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Also, Bindoe, nVidia hav expierience with the PlayStation 3, which is much better...  (no offence to MS and their XBox 360)

I think nVidia r gonna pull off DX10 better.  (Besides, SLi is better than Crossfire...)

The Ps3s GPU is based of the Geforce 7 and dosn't have things like unified shaders (ATI is now experianced on Unified shaders). Wink

Oh, and the 2 terraflop thing isn't a good way to measure performance. In reality  the ps3s processor does less than half a terraflop, which is still great and better than the Xbox. But double the price, and then it looses to Kentsfield.

How is SLI better than Cross fire? As far as I know Crossfire works on all games while SLI works on only a few, as well as:
X1950XTX > 7900GTX
X850XTPE > 6800ultra
9800pro > fx 5900.

I do think Nvidia will, as always, do extremly good in the mid range sector though.
 
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Reply #11 - Sep 26th, 2006 at 5:03am

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Not to be sarcastic, but how many gpus can ATi support, cuz i know that nvidia can support 4.  (heard a rumor that they might go up another knotch, maybe six Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin)

Plus the arcitecture is better (dunno how, just read a review).
 
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Reply #12 - Sep 26th, 2006 at 6:20am
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ATI supports 2, Nvidia supports, like 8 or something with work stations Wink

But seriously, who buys 4 video cards? Kids with rich parents Smiley

As for archetecture, I don't know. The ATI 9800 can run new games on medium settings, while the Geforce
fx5900 cannot even run them. Why? Because the fx series have terrible pixel shading performance.

The X8x0 series is OK. It has higher clocks than geforce 6 but dosn't always perform faster.

The X1k high end series gets higher performance than the Nvidia counterpart, even with less pixel pipelines, along with ultra threaded shaders.

Anyway, Crossfire X1950XTX get 67fps with FEAR maxed out 4x AA and 16x AF. What more can someone want?
 
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Reply #13 - Sep 26th, 2006 at 11:36pm

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Hmm, 100 fps with graphics maxed out with 16x antialiasing?

And nVidia only supports 4 at the moment (key phrase: at the moment)
 
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Reply #14 - Sep 27th, 2006 at 8:11am
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Hmm, 100 fps with graphics maxed out with 16x antialiasing?

And nVidia only supports 4 at the moment (key phrase: at the moment)

4x AA with 16x AF. AA = Anti Aliasing. AF = Anisotopic filtering.

The 8 core thing is about two Quaddro plex's in SLI Wink
 
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Reply #15 - Sep 27th, 2006 at 9:31am

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but the specs at the bottom make me cry.


Hmm...256 bit bus and 512 mb of videomemory?
Pretty humble even for modern high end cards...
Cards with similar specs you could buy already several months ago...Other specs matters also though...Dunno...
 
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