GeForce4 Speculation

I also find it hard to believe they would announce the geforce 4 so quickly after the ti 500 / 200.

The fact they have little competition (don't make me laugh ATI - they sell 1/5'th the chips I'd figure) means they can string us that "little bit longer" for a little bit more money and release it more in the march time frame.

if it's being released / announced in January does this mean it's been 6 months for the ti's already? (I find that hard to believe, aren't the ti's only 2 months old?)

this speculation seems grossly guessed to me from what I just read on the page.


and FINALLY if Nvidia read this (hopefully some of you will agree) I DON'T GIVE A FUCKING SHIT ABOUT 128MB OF RAM why waste MY fucking money on 128mb when 64mb is barely completely used yet (one map one game stresses a 32 mb card - q3 dm9 so I hear) - USE FUCKING NICE QUALITY TEXTURE COMPRESSION FOR JESUS'S SAKES! - look at what UT can do with S3TC in 32bit and tell me we need 128mb of ram.

just another excuse to jack the price up.

"this card requires 8x16mb chips rather than 4x16mb chips - if we pay X$ per chip and then make 5% profit per chip - we will make 10% profit on memory if we make it 128mb!"

It's all marketing faggotry and bullshit we DON'T need 128mb - at this point.
What I would like to see is a GPU @ 2x the speed (.13 micron and well cooled) and using the nforce technology of 2 seperate "bus's" to the memory to theoretically double the bandwidth - much much better for bandwidth issues.

I just read this on another forum

"soldier of fortune2 is being developed with 128 meg of ram in mind. you'll be able to set the textures lower if you dont have it. but you need 128 to see it in all its glory."

So, is Carmack finally getting a 64-bit color videocard next christmas?

Mabey he'll finally stfu!

that is the card i'm holding out for.

I'm sure Verant will figure out how to suck up 128mb of video ram pretty damn quickly. However, I would love to see a mmorpg take advantage of dual displays. That would rock.

You should all prepare yourself for the fact that certain future titles will already be modifying textures to take advantage of this card.

I want the Geforce 4 ti1000! :)

A card that will run Doom 3 acceptably I expect. Next fall would be a good time to upgrade from a GF2 - providing a Doom 3 demo is available for scoping. Elsewise, there doesn't seem to be much of a reason.

Hard to believe we're kinda at a point where the video card technology seems to be surpassing the available games that are out there. Usually they run hand in hand or the cards are a few months behind, right?

Figures,I just bought a Geforce3-but-I'll have to upgrade my computers to run a Geforce4 and I'm not about to do that for atleast three years,seeing how I just finished upgrading all of them.

speculation - lovely I "speculate" the geforce 44 will have 9gb of ram ddr 6000 mhz with 128bit colour and 19 gpu's!


it's ok guys it's "speculation"

fah