NV30 and R300 Explored

My next PC will be all GPUs, special sound chips, special ram chips, and a really cheap CPU so they can all talk together.

Will ati hit the video market with a big bang like 3dfx....... or will bitboys do that...

This stuff sux guys, Bitboys 0\/\/n j00!!¿

How could you want all this fancy shit with 100+ million transistors, and all this real advanced shit.

Im puttin my money on the REAL PERFORMANCE leaders, BITBOYS... They r0x0r all j00 4Ss3s with their cards that are ub3rl33t and pictures of chipsets with no actual specs because they are so much f4st3r they dont want to embarass this oth3r sh1tz!

why is everyone so obsessed with making toy story, shrek, etc movies in realtime. do they not know that the computer that is rendering these crazy 3d movies is probably taking about a minute a frame to do it. we're still a ways off i think..

i hate when they compare products that are off in the time scale. Whatever is newer BETTER be definately be faster or else its trash. The R300 better be faster than the Geforce4 and the NV30 better be faster than the r300. In fact replace 'better' with 'will' cause i have faith in these companies.

how can anybody ever want to buy the new GPU as soon as it comes out knowing it will get so much cheaper?

I read an article that said that certian librarians and information resource administrators said that they didn't like the internet because although there is a vast quantity of knowledge out there, the quality of it is generally diluted, unlike in books, where there are usually several editors and people other than the author involved in writing the final product. That's probably true, but such is not the case with this article.

This is the best article I've read online in a very long time. Very well laid out, introed and outroed and all the specualtion is quanitfied as such, lots of relevant quotes. It's all good.

Makes the future of gaming look pretty bright too. If we have renderman-capable hardware in the upcoming or even the next generation of cards, imagine what the next gen stuff from id will look like. We could realistically be playing with Toy Story quality graphics in 5 years. (Although knowing id, it would be a very dark and scary version of Toy Story, which is fine by me.)