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Next-Gen GeForce in 3 Weeks

by Alec Matias, Jun 03, 2005 8:04am PDT
Related Topics – Sony, Hardware (PC only)

NVidia plans to unveil their next-gen graphics chip at an event in San Francisco on June 21. The event will be an "evening of full-throttle entertainment" with "revolutionary technologies, hot 3D content, and exciting gaming action as we unveil our next-generation GPU." This desktop GPU will be very similar to the one they've designed for the PS3, dubbed the RSX or Reality Synthesizer, which has been said to be more powerful than two combined GeForce 6800 Ultras. The RSX has a 550MHz core clock and 300 million transistors, but both Sony and nVidia have been mum on other features. Update: Some pictures of the new card have shown up at Tom's Hardware and AnandTech. Tom's is calling it the GeForce 7800 GTX.


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    By: ProdigyXL x
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    You know you don't have to purchase a new card every time they release something. My graphics card history is as follows...

    S3 Virge (came in my old Gateway P2 266)
    Pure 3D II (Voodoo2)
    Geforce 1
    Geforce 3 (Vanilla)
    BFG Tech Geforce 6800GT OC

    As you can see, I usually upgrade every other new card tech. I've never gotten a refresh product (Nvidia didn't do it with the 6800s this time tho anyways). If you're still on a NV40 class card, or R400 series card, skip the G70 and the R500 "Fudos". If you're sitting on a NV30 series card, the G70/R520s will be a great jump. I'd say if your still using a 9700/9800 series Radeon, an upgrade to these new chips is also worth it. The jump between last generation and current generation was quite astonding, and if the humor mill is anywhere near correct, a similiar jump maybe instore.

    And remember, neither the Nvidia or Ati stuff will ship in volume anytime in the near future. Nvidia launched the NV40s mid April last year and you didn't see them available until June/July in any decent volume. Ati was faster tho, but the high end Ultras/XTs were scare as shit for months. By the time the products do hit the shelves, my advice above should be about right.

    I'm expecting flames, but this is just my advice. Remember last gen to this gen jumped from 8 and 4/2 (not sure about those figures) to 16 full pipes on high end, and sounds like we are looking cards with 24 or 32 pipes this next gen, so another big boost may happen, but again, games that will use this stuff will be off a while.

    One last thing, remember a lot of people are still running on AGP mother boards. Nvidia will probably ship the G70 native for PCIe, (the NV40s use the bridge chip remember) and Ati diffenently will, so it might be even further down the line before AGP versions of the midgrade cards come out. So if you wanna upgrade to them when they come out anyways, you'll be probably looking at a new rig all together at that point, which does suck. But still, those on older midgrade cards need the upgrade anyways across the board by the time they ship.

    Wow, that was winded and no one will read it. Oh well.
    Jun 03, 2005 6:12pm PDT

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