NVIDIA GF100 & Friends speculation
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It's there for quite some time and from what I can see the content hasn't changed either.
Jawed
Legend
3x 2560x1600 isn't possible? Or is that a limitation of the stereoscopic 3D (dual-link bandwidth at 120Hz not enough?)? Maybe non-stereo works on 3x 2560x1600 displays?
Jawed
we already discussed it around CES (when it showed up on slides) and it's a bandwidth problem.. browse back if you want to.
aaronspink
Veteran
Pretty sure Fermi doesn't have a seperate 32b int multiplier but just extended the 24b multiplier needed for SP to 32.
aaronspink
Veteran
People laughed when I first mentioned the bar bet! They aren't laughing now. So get to PAX east and buy up all those cards. JHH plans to grab all the ES he can, slap some sticker on it, OC it, and give the PE editions to the end users. All part of the plan: "response was so good at PAX that the whole supply sold out, so we'll have to delay release to our OEM and Retail partners."
Int multiplication is half rate. Is that compatible with your conjecture?
Even when its released I wont be able to buy one. $670 for a video card ? Better make me tea and do the dishes.
Also these are MSRP's so the inflation/gouging as you call it will only drive the price o greater heigts. Look at the 5970. ITs MSRP is $600 but its gone for upwards of $800 on newegg and still commands $50-$100 over MSRP when they are instock at newegg.
What proff do you wnt in a pre release speculation post ? YOu might want to reread what I said and Why I said it.
The gtx 480 is priced $70 higher than the 5970. The 5970 is a dual chip card. Thus the 5970 is cheaper than the gtx 480. If the cards perform similar or the 5970 (a dual chip card) performs better then the only reason for nvidia t price the card so high is because its very expensive to make and there will be few of them made and thus high price with limited ovlume will keep demand down.
Nvidia has had about 6 months to see the prices of the 5870 and 4 or so for the 5970. So they know exactly where their cards fall performance wise and price wise.
I'm most likely going to go. Just ironing out driving plans and what not. I will let u know
Really? How do we know this? Sabre's price slip may turn out to be accurate and not already erring on the side of max profit, but at this point it still feels like a guess.
At some point, even car analogies break down.
Wait....
Your right , it may be wrong. But once again we are in a speculation thread and I'm speculating off the information that is coming out.
I odn't see whats wrong with speculating in a speculation thread.
Perhaps a rename should be done to the thread if speculation is no longer welcome.
We like our speculation to come with a bit of thought, consideration, knowledge and insight wherever possible. Where was the "I think this is an MSRP, so I suspect it's on the low side and retailers will add some margin because of demand", or whatever? You know, the speculation part?
Don't bitch and moan about not being able to speculate when you didn't even do so.
Don't bitch and moan about not being able to speculate when you didn't even do so.
I'm not sure what is wrong with my post.
I think I made it quite clear in my post that I was speculating and asking questions. I used question marks and words like IF and seems.
I would apreciate it if you can point out how i could have made it more clear that I wasn't stating fact and was speculating.
Not enough of them. Exhibit A, and the bit that's clearly being discussed (although I think you know that, you sexy troll you
). If you read my post again, I explain why this isn't great:Get it? Reads like factjvd said:
Look up!eastmen said:
Slip?
Heh.
Did we discuss this other ShaneB bit? About only a 1 year warranty from nVidia on Fermi?
Also I just have to add this beautiful example of modesty:
Who the hell is ShaneB?
So how big is this market at the top end of the spectrum and is it likely to grow due to new technologies like 3D/Display spanning or is it likely to shrink/stay stable balanced by the fact that people who previously needed the highest tier cards don't need the highest end GPUs to run their games anymore?
The biggest games and the most popular games tend to be the games which don't require anything like the 5870 or GTX 480 class performance. I've already seen 120+ FPS on Bioshock 2 on a 5870 so this makes me curious about the market dynamics we're looking at here. We have laptops now filling out the middle/lower tier GPU classes now so theres quite a bulge of chips in the lower 1/3rd of the performance sprectrum relative to these cards.
The biggest games and the most popular games tend to be the games which don't require anything like the 5870 or GTX 480 class performance. I've already seen 120+ FPS on Bioshock 2 on a 5870 so this makes me curious about the market dynamics we're looking at here. We have laptops now filling out the middle/lower tier GPU classes now so theres quite a bulge of chips in the lower 1/3rd of the performance sprectrum relative to these cards.
aaronspink
Veteran
If it is indeed half rate, then they are likely bridging two SP mantissa multipliers to get the required functionality.
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