guesses on Nvidia's answer to the X1900?

[naseltzer]

Anand makes a good point.. right now ATI doesn't really have dookie between 200-500 bucks. Whattya think their gonna give us in the 300 dollar price range?

How about Nvidia? they gonna come back with a 8800 or something?

N

[Steevo]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102657

[CYBERX1800XT]

THE ONLY THING: NVIDIA WILL DO IS TAKE THERE 7800GTX,,OVERCLOCK IT,,ADD FASTER MEMORY,,AND CALL IT THE 7900GTX II. WHOOPIE -DOO!! I HAVE A SAYING ABOUT NVIDIA,,,PHA-Q NVIDIA!!! THEY HAVE NO GRAVITY,,THEREFORE THEY SUCK OUT LOUD!!! AND THERE PIXEL SHADER 3.O IS A TOTAL JOKE!! WANT A REAL VIDEO CARD,GET AN A.T.I.!!

CYBERX1800XT!!
TOLEDO,OHIO!

P.S. - PHA-Q NVIDIA!! THE ONLY GOOD USE FOR AN NVIDIA CARD IN CANADA IS A HOCKEY PUCK!! OR A LEAF BLOWER. AFTER ALL THOSE 7800GTX'S REALLY DO BLOW,,AS IN MAKE LIKE THE WIND AND BLOW ME!!! :pimp: :p :eek: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :wtf: :eek:

[naseltzer]

LoL... Why don't you tell us what you really think of Nvidia?

[BIOHazard87]

i agree with cyberx, but not so extremely, the Image Quality from Nvidia and what iv seen and owned, has been worse, u need to turn up the AA/AF just to make it equal to an ATI with nothing, nvidias generally overclock nicer, but i like ATI's drivers better etc, in the 100-200 dollar price range, Nvidia and ATI are ABOUT equal bang for the buck, 200-300 dollar price range nvidia wins, and 50-100 dollar price range, ATI wins, i dont buy cards when they're 800 dollars, i wait till they're 200-230 or so

[15th Warlock]

Right now you can get the X850XT for about $350-$400, a very good card, but it doesn't support SM 3.0, on the other hand, you could get the 7800GT for less than $300, and it's a very good card, faster than the X850 in most benchmarks and it does support SM 3.0
Why would anyone suggest wasting your money on a 128-bit video card these days? Games are getting more memory bandwidth intensive everyday, why would ppl recommend such cards? it really puzzles me...
Anyway, answering your original question, nVidia's real answer to the X1900 will be the G71 based GeForce 7900, the flagship is expected to have 32 pixel pipelines and a core clock of over 600 Mhz, 512 MBs of RAM and an internal memory bus of 512-bits just like the hard to find 7800GTX 512.
Expect to see a 7900GT version with less pipelines enabled (24 perhaps) some months after the launch of the 32 pp 7900(GTX?), and I guess it'll sell for about $350-$400...

[spectre440]

i'm trying real hard not to lose my temper here, and i know that alot of people (myself included) are not going to like the following sentance, and for that i appologize truley and sincerley.

but can CYBERX1800XT please just shut up? for the love god! enough with the bloody CAPS all the time! enough with the stupid flaming! ENOUGH! ENOUGH!!!!.
for cryin' out loud! just act like a goddamn civil human being! is that so hard?!

there. i'm done.
again, i appologize for my momentary lapse in temperment, but i just had to get that out of my system.

[djbbenn]

Please lay off on the fanboy comments CYBERX1800XT. There's no need for it, where it will only cause a flame war. Also is there a problem with your caps lock key?

There's nothing wrong with voicing you opinion, but there is a way of going about it.

-Dan

[15th Warlock]

Isn't he the same guy that was rambling on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. thread? Geez, I guess the fanboys are starting to crawl into our forum...

[Keiki]

Both the ATI flagship card, the 1900XTX and Nvidia's 7800 GTX are both excellent cards (if you can shell out enough $$ for it). So, there's no need to fight for either cards because no card actually beats the other completely. In some tests Ati is better, and in some Nvidia is better. However, I do think that Nvidia's new flagship card the 7900, will indeed beat the 1900 in most tests. That is because Nvidia wouldn't push a new high-end card out just to lose to Ati now would they?

[Polaris573]

I guess the fanboys are starting to crawl into our forum...

Meh...... :shadedshu

[naseltzer]

...but in high-intensity virtual combat, if you wait, you die.

So I pulled the trigger on an Evga 7800 GT. Got me a nice Zalman cooler and some copper ram sinks for some clockin'.

Hopefully Nvidia won't surprise me with a 7900 GT in the next few weeks, or ATI with a x1800xl with an unlockable R580 core.

Cheers.

[spinnine]

Their strikeback is GeForce 7900 GTX soon, maybe in March.
Right now, let's go for X1900 XTX!
:toast:

[dotsync]

Both the ATI flagship card, the 1900XTX and Nvidia's 7800 GTX are both excellent cards (if you can shell out enough $$ for it). So, there's no need to fight for either cards because no card actually beats the other completely. In some tests Ati is better, and in some Nvidia is better. However, I do think that Nvidia's new flagship card the 7900, will indeed beat the 1900 in most tests. That is because Nvidia wouldn't push a new high-end card out just to lose to Ati now would they?

thats what ati did... and i fell for it, lol. out with the x1800xt, in with the x1900xtx

[trog100]

i think nvidia are gonna be late.. their last so called new release was a fake.. just take a few cream of the crop chips off the line over clock em.. stick some more and faster memory on it just enough to send out to all the reviewers and a few box suppliers like alien ware and when the first bunch dry up not be able to make any more.. this is pretty much what happened.. if u cant actually buy one cos they cant produce em they are a fake..

the demand for em would never have been that great at the price so in essence they could not produce the card in any quantities.. to be honest to win the crown back and get all the publicity they dont have to.. the few samples sent out to reviewers achieve that..

i am waiting for a new dual gpu on one card idea to appear.. two seperate cards is waste of money.. if they can stick two cpus on one chip for not much more money they can do the same with gpus.. that will makes sense.. the sooner sli and c/f dissapear the better from my perspective..

whoever does that first will have winner..

trog

ps.. as for who actually holds the perfromance crown at the moment i recon the vast majority say ati does with the x1900xtx.. not a lot of difference but there can only be one title holder.. at the moment its ati..

[BIOHazard87]

meh i can get a x850 xt for about 200-250 on ebay, new retail box

[ThorAxe]

I think that whatever it is it will be dual-slot.....or maybe not. :laugh:

[MDK22]

Asus has already done 2 gpus on one board. However im guessing you meant dual core gpu. But anyway u can get quad sli i believe. But they are very buggy still and not really worth the money yet.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814121213

[trog100]

yes seen the monsters.. but i think behind the scenes quad sli will lead to the concept of two gpus on one card being the standard high end card kinda configuration.. at least i hope so..

unlike cpus i cant see any gain in dual core gpu chips.. just sticking two on the same board should be pretty easy.. and it certainly should work out far cheaper than two entirely seperate cards.. i think it has to come..

again none of its new.. a voodo 2 was simply two voodoo 1 chips on the same board.. so a pair of voodoo 2 cards in sli mode was quad sli eight years ago.. a voodoo 5 was five voodoo 1 chips on the same board..

easier back then as well cos u didnt need a special mobo..

trog

[mdawg]

People like little Cyber ATI Love boy need to be banned, I hate peole like that who just favor one brand no matter what and spread false facts it really gets on my nerves.

[KennyT772]

problem with sucessful dual core/gpu video cards is the bandwidth bottleneck. thats why dual cards are ruling. with 2 physical cards u get true 16x speed to each chip. with a dual core/gpu card u can only get 8x. as soon as they release a new grafix slot however (like pci-e 32x) then these cards will rule unless we have already reached that bottleneck. odds are that the next slot is just going to be an improvment for backwards capatability (the agp route). sli and cf will die once the bottlenecks are resolved but until then dual cards will beat dual gpus.

[TooFast]

Both the ATI flagship card, the 1900XTX and Nvidia's 7800 GTX are both excellent cards (if you can shell out enough $$ for it). So, there's no need to fight for either cards because no card actually beats the other completely. In some tests Ati is better, and in some Nvidia is better. However, I do think that Nvidia's new flagship card the 7900, will indeed beat the 1900 in most tests. That is because Nvidia wouldn't push a new high-end card out just to lose to Ati now would they?



wrong!!!! the x1900xtx beats the 7800 in all tests:nutkick:

[ice91785]

You should go read reviews and benchmarks man...cuz he is right. The 1900xtx is more favorable but does not completely own the 7800GTX.... (This from an ATI man...)

[TooFast]

You should go read reviews and benchmarks man...cuz he is right. The 1900xtx is more favorable but does not completely own the 7800GTX.... (This from an ATI man...)


I dont know i like to play with AA and AF maxed out:D nvidia just cant keep up

[mdawg]

You should go read reviews and benchmarks man...cuz he is right. The 1900xtx is more favorable but does not completely own the 7800GTX.... (This from an ATI man...)

I know but the fact is the 7800GTX isant nvidias card thats ment to compete with the x1900 is what im saying. Lets see what the 7900 has to offer then lets start talking about comparing and whats better.

[bikr692002]

I perfer ATI over Nvidia because... well... I didn't have any "good" experiences with Nvidia... The RMA is just a waste of time. I feel that ATI cards are alot more stable and reliable...
But that's just IMO.

[KennyT772]

same here bikr. the mx440 "crutch" card i got sucks. the 5200 in my dads comp also sucks. the 6800 in my friends comp sucks... i just dont like um.